▶ Your Answer :Some people
believe ability to work with other people is less important than it was before.
However, in my opinion, it is much more important in these days for following 2
reasons. First
of all, technology has been way more developed than before. So one person can
hardly master one area even if someone dedicated one’s life to it. But
considering that there were many philosophers who were on the edge of science,
philosophy, music and mathematics at the same time in the ancient, it seems
mastering one area was not very hard compared to it is in these days. It means
people need to work together because one person cannot cover multiple areas. Also,
‘developed’ means technology has been divided very specifically. And this gives
same conclusion; people have to gather up and work together. For example,
Wright Brothers could develop and make airplane only by themselves in 19th
century. But nowadays Boing which is a largest company making airplane
has 50 thousand people even only for developing new airplanes.
On
the top of that, internet is boosting the significance of collaborating with
others. Internet make people to overcome the limit of opportunities to
cooperate. People in the past could only have comparably limited opportunity. For
example, it was hard to get in touch with someone who lived far away and also, people
could not even know who were out there. So they didn’t get enough chance to
collaborate with the right people. But now the limit became significantly smaller
and people can exploit themselves as much as they can work with others. We can
check people’s resume and work experiences on the internet who are even in opposite
side of the earth and work together by email or some cloud services. If someone
is not good at working with others, he or she might get a few chances to work
and not be very successful.
To
sum up, there are too much things to learn and study so that people might not
be able to know everything even one area. So people felt the need to working
together more than before. And if someone is good at working with other people,
he or she might be able to get more chances than before thanks to development
of communication technology. Therefore, I think being able to work with other
people is more critical than it was before. |