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.

RE: Revenge of the Right Brain