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Whitehead’s Dilemma:
"I am very much concerned with the uses of power.
“When Alfred North Whithead first came to this country from England, in the early part of this century, he remarked upon the fact that the graduate schools were all turning out specialists. Not that specialists weren’t needed. But all the bright ones were becoming specialists. They were the only ones being educated for the graduate schools. As a result, the best brains are highly specialized. Not only that, but along with high intellectual capabilities they developed a high intellectual integrity-- no specialist of integrity would think of going into some other expert’s field/ and making quick assumptions as to the significance or lack of significance of the work of a specialist in another field. So communication ceased between them. We have teams of all-stars supposedly designing the system-- and they can’t even talk to each other!”
