The late Theodore Roszack recorded this video over 25 years ago on the independent television program, Thinking Allowed.

His subject in this ©Thinking Allowed video uploaded to YouTube in honor of his life  is what it means to think. Is it just to manipulate Ideas or to create them? And how does this relate to the value of the computer?  "We need good old-fashioned literacy; not just computer literacy ... what data matters and what data does not matter."

From Thinking Knowledge: "This program is being posted in its entirety to honor the memory of Theodore Roszak, who passed away on July 5, 2011.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
— T.S. Elliott

"Our real educational and cultural needs are in danger of becoming lost in the erroneous fascination with the information processing model of the mind. One of America's foremost social critics, Theodore Roszak, Ph.D., author of The Making of the Counter-Culture, Eco-Psychology and The Cult of Information, delivers a scathing indictment of the over-selling of computer and high-tech ideology to the American public."

Editor's Note: Prof. Roszack also wrote The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections on the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation (2009). Theodore and Betty Roszack were the editors of Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women (1969)

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