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...were there, especially if you are part of that front-loaded cadre of boomers born between 1946 and 1957, the last thing you want to hear is that you aren't going to have it your way anymore. After all, as Ralph Whitehead Jr., a public service professor at the University of Massachusetts says, "The baby boom was a self-absorbed generation, a generation that defined itself not through sacrifice as its parents had, but through indulgence...
...December World mourns loss of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
Patrick McGovern is the founder and chair of International Data Group, a technology media conglomerate, publishing newspapers, magazines and books about technology. His wife is a technology entrepreneur and is chair of the board of associates of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research...
Fineberg's task force, chaired by Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson, also included former HIID director Dwight H. Perkins, Whitehead Center for International Affairs director Jorge I. Dominguez, and Program on Technology and Economic Policy director Dale W. Jorgenson...
...philosopher Alfred North Whitehead wrote, "The greatest invention of the 19th century was the invention of the method of invention." That method, Whitehead added, "has broken up the foundations of the old civilization." Thomas Alva Edison never thought of himself as a revolutionary; he was a hardworking, thoroughly practical man, a problem solver who cared little about ideas for their own sake. But he was also the most prodigious inventor of his era, indeed of all time, and he was recognized as the spirit of a new age by his contemporaries. They observed the amazing new products streaming...