The Hybrid Engineer that Speaks Two Languages

A paragraph to ponder from the excellent The Industries of the Future by Alex Ross:

"For this reason, many of the people I spoke to encouraged the age-old liberal arts education and its credo of "learning how to think."  Indeed, many felt that the distance between traditional liberal arts fields and engineering fields would begin to collapse.  Jared Cohen asks, "Why should I have to be a political scientist or a computer scientist?  Why is there not a hybrid between the two?  Why is it that I have to be either a historian or an English major or an electrical engineer?  Why is there no hybrid between the two?  You know they are both languages.  The point is there needs to be a more interdisciplinary approach that merges the sciences and humanities in a way that prepares kids for a world where those silos are already beginning to be broken down."