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The modern world of dynamics is an all-at-once
world in which there cannot be single levels or
one-thing-at-a-time awareness. This change is
a very bad thing, indeed, for the previous
technology and for all of us whose education
represents a heavy investment of precious years
in acquiring what may now be irrelevant modes of
knowledge.
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
opens with a discussion of the “vested interests in
acquired knowledge,” “the bland leaders of the
bland,” whose discourse and perception move
evenly in the single lines and the single planes of