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"A Productive Dead End, An Escape by Computer," by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. New York Times, 15 July 1996.
This article reviews the book After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence, by James Bailey. Bailey was a senior manager of the now-defunct Thinking Machines Corporation, which produced some of the most sophisticated and powerful computers of this decade. In discussing parallel processing, neural networks, and the like, Bailey makes a case for the prospect of a coming electronic revolution that will rival the invention of language in its intellectual impact. In order for people to be able to use the computing tools of the future, the book suggests, mathematics education should focus on familiarity with parallel computing and should relegate geometry and calculus to the history department.
-Allyn Jackson
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