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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Psychological revolution?
If you are friend, co-worker or family of me, there is a good chance you heard me muttering something about a psychological revolution I was expecting in the next 100 years. My idea was simple: we had an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, an information revolution...there must be another one heading our way!
After having machines do our physical work and having computers do our mental work the next logical area for man to engage in was, in my eyes, human psyche. I expect 'man' to develop very strong in this area over the next decades, to make big new discoveries about human psyche and how to utilize them in our advantage.
In Dan Pink I found someone likeminded. In his book 'A whole new mind' he shows he has given it much deeper thought than I have and I totally agree with him.
One thing that I hadn´t realized is that we do not need to wait until computers can take over all our mental tasks. A lot of it can be outsourced to countries like India! We are already entering the new era, called the conceptual era by Pink.
Only thing left for us to do is to start developing our right brain halves, because that is the area in which we can still add significant economic value. That is where the creative and empathic stuff is going on which cannot be fulfilled by Asia, Automation and Abundance, as Pink calls the three main thrusters for the conceptual era.
Now lets try not to forget all the left brain stuff we learned! Like my dad mentioned happened in a science fiction novel he read: computers did the thinking and someone had found a revolutionary new skill, head calculus...
And what about the Mayans in Guatemala? From the city ruins and art work I have seen they were pretty well right-brain-half-developed. I wonder whatever skills have been lost since that society died away?Labels: conceptual age, psychological revolution
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