flynn23 wrote:
] ] Beneath the nervous clatter of our half-completed decade
] ] stirs a slow but seismic shift. The Information Age we
] ] all prepared for is ending. Rising in its place is what I
] ] call the Conceptual Age, an era in which mastery of
] ] abilities that we've often overlooked and undervalued
] ] marks the fault line between who gets ahead and who falls
] ] behind.
]
] I'm gonna have to stew on this for a bit before I think I can
] truly understand the shift. But I would on first blush
] disagree to some extent.

I haven't read this yet, but at first blush it sounds like one you can chalk up next to "Push Technology" and the "Long Boom" as yet another example of Wired's complete inability to separate good ideas from bad ones.

The Information age is a major historial era that is not over and is not about to be replaced with some other age. Furthermore, the idea of "left brain" and "right brain" thinking being fundamentally opposed is an industrial era notion that results from the need to find people's strengths and place them in highly specialized roles. If you're still thinking in those terms you don't get the information age, which is something you ought to do if you plan on declaring other historical eras.

I'll read and recomment later.

Decius wrote:
] flynn23 wrote:
] ] ] Beneath the nervous clatter of our half-completed decade
] ] ] stirs a slow but seismic shift. The Information Age we
] ] ] all prepared for is ending. Rising in its place is what I
] ] ] call the Conceptual Age, an era in which mastery of
] ] ] abilities that we've often overlooked and undervalued
] ] ] marks the fault line between who gets ahead and who falls
] ] ] behind.
] ]
] ] I'm gonna have to stew on this for a bit before I think I
] can
] ] truly understand the shift. But I would on first blush
] ] disagree to some extent.
]
] I haven't read this yet, but at first blush it sounds like one
] you can chalk up next to "Push Technology" and the "Long Boom"
] as yet another example of Wired's complete inability to
] separate good ideas from bad ones.
]
] The Information age is a major historial era that is not over
] and is not about to be replaced with some other age.
] Furthermore, the idea of "left brain" and "right brain"
] thinking being fundamentally opposed is an industrial era
] notion that results from the need to find people's strengths
] and place them in highly specialized roles. If you're still
] thinking in those terms you don't get the information age,
] which is something you ought to do if you plan on declaring
] other historical eras.
]
] I'll read and recomment later.

hmm... not to jump the gun on this, but I have to react to your comments.

First, I'm not against critiquing Wired. A publication that took it's role waaay too seriously, and the various personalities associated with it are at best, a menagerie of non-ironic comic relief. But I think they usually get it right. Your two examples are great. Push Technology lives. It's called RSS. The Long Boom is also well alive, it just has nothing to do with the stock market, but rather, our consistent and accelerating productivity gains due to the application of technology.

I don't think the article is saying that left brain replaces right brain, or even that they are opposed. Certainly this is not a need to find the right fit for the right person. As a society, we absolutely do need to do a better job at that. But I don't understand what you mean when you say "you don't get the information age." So maybe I'm missing something.

flynn23 wrote:
] ] Beneath the nervous clatter of our half-completed decade
] ] stirs a slow but seismic shift. The Information Age we
] ] all prepared for is ending. Rising in its place is what I
] ] call the Conceptual Age, an era in which mastery of
] ] abilities that we've often overlooked and undervalued
] ] marks the fault line between who gets ahead and who falls
] ] behind.
]
] I'm gonna have to stew on this for a bit before I think I can
] truly understand the shift. But I would on first blush
] disagree to some extent. I feel like the blah of the current
] decade is more atributable to the fact that few organizations
] truly maximize their potential for managing information
] effectively, and executing based upon that management. Most
] companies are still run very very poorly, and most knowledge
] workers are ill equipped, either by skill or environment, to
] truly do their best work.
]
] But the fact that I started that thought with "I feel" means
] that I'm probably more in agreement with the author than not.

Or it could mean that you are wrong. It could also mean that you are scared, since people with no creativity, such as yourself, will be put in the rank and file jobs you deserve. It could also mean that your feelings outweigh your intellect when it comes to making decisions, which would place you in the feminine camp. Or it could just mean that you are a kiddie-fiddler with a thing for boys with hockey sticks and pucks. Think about it.