My thoughts on "mind" isn't an honorable mention to the Homo Sapiens. Since we started to flourish, yes a lot of things were invented, made better, etc...

However, the more we evolve, the more stupid we get. What is the ratio of people who would be able to survive if thrown in the Forest without any technology? Or able to say that they could live without the need for any external help (for food, drink, a roof over their head, basic tools and repair them when needed, etc)

We've become dependant, and as you put it, over specialized. We have one, two, a few at most, fields of expertise and we lack in nearly all the others. Yes there are more types of works than hundred of years ago, but that's exactly it...

If that wasn't enough, the minority who invent new things and giving them to others are only making us dumber and dumber. We are USING technology, but how many know HOW it works?

An humorist from Quebec put it this way: The more people in the group, the dumber the group gets.