It may cover a lot of ground, and bring up many points, but nobody is going to be able to build on it. A better approach is to choose a narrow topic for which you of all people in the universe will have the definitive answer. These papers are more like bricks. It is with such bricks that the research edifice is built. You become part of the global team that works together on large social and technical problems, one brick at a time.
Weak papers are like weak bricks that no one build with.
If the brick is important, someone else will have to remake the brick instead of building on it. The more solid your brick the more likely it will be used now and in the future. The ITP is one of the few places with a significant focus on multidisciplinary telecommunication questions. Over time, we are building a unique volume of research through the capstone process. Already there have been over 100 papers.