U.S. celebrates Bicentennial. Republic of Transkei first South African homeland to attain independence. He said that humanity was on the edge of achieving a long-sought goal, the power to control the environment, through unlimited sources of energy, unlimited brain power, and the power of the computer as a logic machine. The result, he thought, was a drive toward effectively unlimited destructive power combined with a drive toward effectively unlimited productive power through automation. There are no measures either existing at the present time or in prospect for tomorrow that could retrain and reeducate people at an adequate pace to keep up with the development of machine systems.
People have different styles of thought.
Until recently, the existence of distinct mentalities was widely accepted. Literate and scientific modes of thought were opposed to more primitive modes. But contemporary scholars reject a hierarchical arrangement of thought styles. That's one of the questions raised in this investigation of how modes of thought should be described and distinguished. The series was recorded at an interdisciplinary meeting of anthropologists, historians of ideas, philosophers of science and cognitive psychologists in Toronto.