A "Whole New Mind" project is a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here.

The right hemisphere is specialized for synthesis; it is particularly good at putting isolated elements together to perceive things as a whole.

Analysis and synthesis are perhaps the two most fundamental ways of interpreting information.

You can break the whole into its components. Or you can weave the components into a whole.

Both re essential to human reasoning but guided by different parts of the brain.

The left can grasp details. But only the right hemisphere can see the big picture.

The left handles logic, sequence, literalness, and analysis. The right takes care of synthesis, emotional expression,context, and the big context.