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...heart of the issue is a seven-page piece of "philosophy" titled "Thoughts at Departure" by Dr. Maximillian Herzberger, a mathematician recently retired from Kodak. Dr. Herzberger delivers a heavy-handed sermon to explain that materialism is a bad thing, that fame alone is a bad thing, and that the respect of other people is a good thing. Such thoughts hardly fit into a magazine of "contemporary expression." We might tend to agree with them all, but the modern mind requires more than vague homilies...
...expect a little discipline" and need to be "held to certain ideals." She has the credentials to back up her comment. In 56 years of marriage, she and her engineer husband have seen their six children become a university president, a company vice president, a top corporation lawyer, a mathematician, a physicist, a housewife, and have themselves become grandparents 26 times over. Obviously such a brood exemplifies "family life at its very best," and so the American Mothers Committee, Inc., picked Lorena Chipman Fletcher, 76, from outstanding mothers across the country, proclaimed her 1965's "Mother of the Year...
...century's most original thinkers, Whitehead was a gentle, British-born mathematician and philosopher who died in 1947 at the age of 86, after teaching at Cambridge, the University of London and Harvard. In his newly published A Christian Natural Theology (Westminster; $6.50), Methodist John Cobb Jr. of the Southern California School of Theology hails Whitehead as the philosophical peer of Plato, Aristotle and Kant and argues that his complex thought provides a way "to restore the term 'God' to meaningful discourse in some real continuity with its historic...
...lead an aphid-like existence in the future will be a very small group of scientific experts whose exclusive knowledge and interpretation of the mysteries of the Unfathomable Machine will give them powers far greater than those held by any similar elite in history. I once asked a brilliant mathematician what sort of program he envisioned for the leisurely masses of the modern Hellenic era that he, like Dr. Fein, kept predicting. "Well," he stuttered, "there'd be picnics and lots of good music, and things like that...
...great ironies of the computer is that it would rate as a low-grade moron if given an IQ test. "With a computer," says Mathematician Richard Bellman of the Rand Corp., "everything is reversed. If a one-year-old child can do it, a computer can't. A computer can calculate a trajectory to the moon. What it cannot do is to look upon two human faces and tell which is male and which is female, or remember what it did for Christmas five years ago." Bellman might get an argument about that from some computermen, but his point...