Pieces of this old manuscript were used by John to produce another manuscript which he has titled "A Role for Formalisms in the Integrative Studies". This old original manuscript remains, only partly used. I copied the abstract here to use as my annotation. ABSTRACT: "Science has lost its way. In the ever-expanding array of technology, and in the persistent and unjustifiable coupling of science and technology in everyday conversation as though they had the same attributes, same velocity, and same acceleration, the diagnosis expressed by James Bryant Conant has taken on the appearance of indestructibility. While the inadequacy in established knowledge has come to the fore in the liberal arts, especially through the twentieth-century French school, it continues to be dealt with in metaphors and the kind of high-level generalities that offer no prescription of any consequence. The consequences of failure to distinguish science from technology are long-term in nature. They will ultimately be seen as most egregious in terms of their impact on large-scale systems thinking of the kind which twenty-first century governments will most need, and in which a massive modern deficiency exists, at least in part because of the failure of funding agencies to sponsor the kind of aggressive scientific effort needed to put appropriate methodologies in the service of designing to resolve complexity. And in this, scientists themselves and most academics are willing co-conspirators. They joyfully talk about interdisciplinary, systems dynamics, chaos theory and adaptive systems theory as though these terms were synonymous with complexity, thus reinforcing the superficial views of administrators of scientific funding, and propagating the confusion still deeper and with greater entrenchment into society. Arguments that strive to overcome this situation are seldom given an airing, and may never be heard by those who engage in the continued misrepresentations. Given this situation, now only dimly suspected, something must be done to restore the distinction between science and technology. What will it be?"
