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The essential problem of man in a computerized age remains the same as it has always been. That problem is not (36) how to be more productive, more comfortable, more content, but how to be more sensitive and more sensible, and more (37) . The computer makes possible a phenomenal leap in human (38) ; it demolishes the fences around the practical and even the (39) intelligence. But the question (40) and indeed grows whether the computer will make it easier or harder for human beings to know who they really are, to identify their real problems, to respond more fully to beauty, to place adequate value on life and to make their world safer than it now is. Electronic brains can reduce the profusion of dead ends involved in vital research. But they can’t (41) the foolishness and decay that come from the unexamined life. Nor do they connect a man to the things he has to be connected to—the reality of pain in others; the possibilities of creative growth in himself; the memory of the race: and the rights of the next generation. The reason why these matters are important in a computerized age is that there may be a (42) to mistake data for wisdom, just as there has always been a tendency to (43) logic with values, and intelligence with insight. (44) . Facts are terrible things if left sprawling and unattended. (45) . "It requires a very unusual mind", Whitehead said, "to undertake the analysis of a fact." (46) .