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Toward a new, qualitative science. My primary undertaking right now is a critique of conventional science with a view toward establishing the foundations of a new, qualitative science. The project, which requires an extraordinarily radical assessment of contemporary habits of thought, is headquartered here.

Most of my shorter writings—several hundred articles—have appeared in the online NetFuture newsletter, which I have been producing since 1995. These are accessible via the NetFuture topical index. There are also per-issue indexes for each year, which you can get to from the NetFuture main page.

The book reviews you find here are my doing unless otherwise marked.

All the chapters from my book, The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst, are available in full text. There are also collected excerpts from reviewers' comments (as well as a couple of full-text reviews), and a complete, well-annotated table of contents. View book online.

Likewise, the chapters from my booklet, Extraordinary Lives: Disability and Destiny in a Technological Age, are available in full text.

I also have a collection of miscellaneous papers and addresses, several of them unpublished. These cover diverse topics, including computers in the classroom, orality and literacy in the electronic age, Goethean science, the thought of Owen Barfield, and the limitations of a technological understanding of the human heart.

List of talks, workshops, and conference presentations.

Selected Articles

I list here a limited selection of articles — the "author's pick," so to speak. (This list to be expanded.)

Technology — General

"Computers, the Internet, and the Abdication of Consciousness" - Text of an interview conducted by Dr. Dolores Brien for the "C. G. Jung" page on the web. (Originally published January, 2000.)

"The Deceiving Virtues of Technology" - How did we get from Odysseus, "man of many devices," to the Silicon Valley "man of many gadgets" — and how can we fulfill the original promise in Odysseus' remarkable inner achievements?

Computers and Education

"Meetings with a Snake" - What is lost when we use video and computer technology in the classroom? This paper also discusses the relation between quantitative and qualitative educational research. (Paper published in the March, 1997 Research Bulletin of the Waldorf Education Research Institute.)

Man and Nature

"Toward an Ecological Conversation"

Science — Mechanistic or Holistic

"Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen?" - The laws given by a mechanistic science, valuable as they are, do not enable us to explain or predict or characterize the world's phenomena.

"Between Discordant Eras" - Reflections upon the nature of the human heart. When William Harvey began dissecting animals and observing the heart at the moment it ceased moving, what ancient knowledge of the human being was lost? Can we possibly retrieve any of that knowledge? Clearly it will not be easy. (Paper published in the September, 1998 issue of Archetype, Newsletter Articles Supplement of the Science Group of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain.)

Last revision: February 8, 2005