Mh, here "on-demand learning", in my poor English sound like "training vs learning", where you just show something to someone enough to get him/her able to something.
In a more broad sense: a specialist, too specialist and of low general culture to know/grasp "the big picture", so someone unable to evolve, who tend to have just a hammer and so see only nails etc.
I do not understand the "on demand" part. Beside the title the issue is very old and far older than the industrial era or modern time: the issue is that broad and skilled people know the big picture so are hard to master like famous Greek's "useful idiots", while "useful idiots" are... Useful, but not much a threat for a leader, anthropomorphic bipeds easy to chain and forge ad human-robot.
In some moment in history some leaders have tried a "more culture" path, like Peter the Great, and it does end not very well for him and just partially well, and at a very big price for the people. In some moment the opposite path was took and again it does not end well as well.
Probably the ancient Roman's "in medio stat virtus" (in the mean lie the virtue" is still valid, and find the mean is not so straightforward, NOR easy to keep since we are a living being not a static iron bar...
In a more broad sense: a specialist, too specialist and of low general culture to know/grasp "the big picture", so someone unable to evolve, who tend to have just a hammer and so see only nails etc.
I do not understand the "on demand" part. Beside the title the issue is very old and far older than the industrial era or modern time: the issue is that broad and skilled people know the big picture so are hard to master like famous Greek's "useful idiots", while "useful idiots" are... Useful, but not much a threat for a leader, anthropomorphic bipeds easy to chain and forge ad human-robot.
In some moment in history some leaders have tried a "more culture" path, like Peter the Great, and it does end not very well for him and just partially well, and at a very big price for the people. In some moment the opposite path was took and again it does not end well as well.
Probably the ancient Roman's "in medio stat virtus" (in the mean lie the virtue" is still valid, and find the mean is not so straightforward, NOR easy to keep since we are a living being not a static iron bar...