O fim da Era da Informação e o começo da Era do Conceito

A Wired publicou um trecho do livro "A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age" de Daniel H. Pink. O texto discute o aumento da importância do lado direito do cérebro e o início da Era do Conceito.

De acordo com o autor, a racionalidade e a lógica não serão mais suficientes no futuro. A automação, a terceirização para os países da Ásia e a abundância tornarão cada vez mais importantes as habilidades emocionais, a empatia, criatividade, reconhecimento de padrões...

As the forces of Asia, automation, and abundance strengthen and accelerate, the curtain is rising on a new era, the Conceptual Age. If the Industrial Age was built on people's backs, and the Information Age on people's left hemispheres, the Conceptual Age is being built on people's right hemispheres. We've progressed from a society of farmers to a society of factory workers to a society of knowledge workers. And now we're progressing yet again - to a society of creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers.
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To flourish in this age, we'll need to supplement our well-developed high tech abilities with aptitudes that are "high concept" and "high touch." High concept involves the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to come up with inventions the world didn't know it was missing. High touch involves the capacity to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning.

As idéias não são lá muito originais... já tive alguns papos de boteco a respeito, mas está bem formulado... vale dar uma lida.