Thursday, June 29, 2006

A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

I have to say that I agree with his assessment. In my experience, the ones with the greatest logical thinking tend to fare the worst in work and relationships, even though this seems to be the most valued skill in society. But it isn't. People skills, involved in the above, are key to round it out. Meritocracies just don't exist, the sooner we left brain thinkers sort that out, the better.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1573223085/sr=8-1/qid=1151680637/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-8935693-0609412?ie=UTF8
Posted by at
Labels: ,

Popular Posts

  • Japanese Dragon Mythology Lives On
    The concept of dragons was probably brought to Japan around 2,000 years ago, along with the technology for paddy agriculture. Their images h...
  • Contact Addresses Regarding FTAA
    ...These measures, based on the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) give far too much power to publishers, at the expense of individu...
  • Optical Cryptography
    His system, he said, starts with a laser that sends part of its beam into photo detectors which produce electrical signal that feed back to ...
  • Your new IT budget: $10
    Someone that gets it. Service-oriented software, when done correctly in a platform-agnostic way can be flexible, cheap, and can motivate m...
  • More Terror Attacks to Come
    ...why was this given the file name of skyfall?... Certain information, while not specific as to target, gives the government reason to beli...
  • Putting In A Wireless Network
    When it comes to buying equipment, think g, not b. New 802.11g hardware is nearly five times faster than 802.11b gear, and it will interoper...
  • The Epic Of Gilgamesh
    This edition provides a prose rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopo...
  • Good Article On Bandwith vs Latency
    From the bygone debates over DDR vs. RDRAM to the current controversy over Apples DDR implementations, one issue is commonly misunderstood i...
  • NASA Plans Permanant Moon Base
    In my mind, this is a huge waste of effort. Put a base on Mars instead of the Moon -- there's huge science finds waiting there to be dis...
  • Why Great Minds Can't Grasp Consciousness
    Personally, I believe that consciousness is an emergent property of complex, ordered (yet chaotic) systems which are not necessarily biologi...

Like us on Facebook