New Thinking for a New Millennium: The Processes and Application of Abstracting

The 21st century will bring a time of new problems, experiences and innovations unlike the world has ever seen before. The pace of change is so rapid as to be revolutionary. Changes that used to happen over decades or centuries will happen almost overnight. The world of tomorrow will be fundamentally different than the world of today. This fundamentally different world will require not only new ways of doing things, but a whole new way of thinking. New Thinking For A New Millennium lives up to its title, providing us with a mental bridge to the new millennium, a way to start a journey whose end we cannot see or completely imagine.

This book helps us to think about how we think. Dr. Williams breaks down the processes to their most basic and primitive levels of awareness, of sensing, to the most advanced, postulating and participating types. From there he presents the evolution of our mental models from pre-Aristotelian, through Aristotelian logic, the twentieth century, Einsteinian relativity, and ultimately to the frontier we inhabit today. He shows that fundamental discoveries about how the world works have led to changes in how we think and how we approach and understand the world and our surroundings.

This book has special appeal to those intrigued by how the human mind works, to those interested in the history of ideas, the evolution of our thought processes, and to anyone seeking a better and more useful way to engage the world.