The Thinking Age (1950 - )
Critical Thinking Becomes Explicit
Social Conditions in the Thinking
Age
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The Thinking Age
Characterized by
Accelerating change, intensifying complexity, increasing danger
Seen in
Increasing amounts of information, quickening obsolescence, ever
changing job market
Causing
Overspecialization, unforeseeable problems, worldwide interdependence,
ever present health risks, growing wealth gap, environmental destruction
Necessitating
Mass education with a focus on critical thinking, a more equal distribution of
wealth, a critical analysis and targeting of significant world problems
Resulting in
The formation of
critical societies
A possible reversion into
another Dark Age
Education
Influential Thinkers in the Thinking
Age