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When Can We Expect to Reorient from Newtonian Thinkingto Quantum Thinking?Just as Multidisciplinary <strong>Analysis</strong> predicts a lengthy process <strong>for</strong> an adversaryto change its strategic thinking, examining our own reorientations to new strategicparadigms indicates that we are subject to <strong>the</strong> same cultural and institutionallimitations on change. To predict when <strong>the</strong> RMC will emerge in <strong>the</strong> wake of <strong>the</strong>change from Industrial-<strong>Age</strong> thinking to In<strong>for</strong>mation-<strong>Age</strong> thinking, one againneed only do <strong>the</strong> addition and demography.IFYou graduated from collegeBe<strong>for</strong>e 1965...After 1980...You’re more com<strong>for</strong>table calculatingthan computing.In <strong>the</strong> last science class you took,you used a slide rule.In biology class youcut up dead cats.You live in <strong>the</strong> world of<strong>the</strong> printed word.Your main source of news isa newspaper or possiblynetwork TVYou are most com<strong>for</strong>table writingusing a paper and penand <strong>the</strong> written word.You’re more com<strong>for</strong>tablecomputing than calculating.In <strong>the</strong> last science class you took,you used a calculator.In biology class youanalyzed DNA.You live in <strong>the</strong> world of<strong>the</strong> hyperword.Your main source of news isCNN or possibly<strong>the</strong> Web.You are most com<strong>for</strong>table writingusing a computerand <strong>the</strong> hyperword.The MTR <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> In<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>Age</strong> began in <strong>the</strong> 1960s with <strong>the</strong> advent ofcomputers and television and <strong>the</strong> rise of institutional science in <strong>the</strong> U.S. Thedefining chasm in Newtonian versus Quantum thinking is between those whograduated from college prior to and after <strong>the</strong> 1970s. Those who graduated priorto 1970 can no more think in terms of In<strong>for</strong>mation-<strong>Age</strong> technologies than <strong>the</strong>sailing-ship Admirals who learned <strong>the</strong> ropes as Midshipmen on board ship in<strong>the</strong> 1840s could build pure steamships in <strong>the</strong> 1870s or <strong>the</strong> segregation-eraAdmirals who built <strong>the</strong>ir friendships in a totally white Navy of <strong>the</strong> 1920s couldthink integration in <strong>the</strong> 1950s. The class of 1975 is now just past fifty years old,which means that virtually all our senior leadership in <strong>the</strong> military and <strong>the</strong> IC is172

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