Friday, January 28, 2005

Going to center

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.

The last four things is what I'm trying to do here.

Then he goes on to say...
But let me be clear: The future is not some
Manichaean landscape in which individuals are
either left-brained and extinct or right-brained
and ecstatic - a land in which millionaire yoga
instructors drive BMWs and programmers scrub
counters at Chick-fil-A. Logical, linear,
analytic thinking remains indispensable. But it's
no longer enough.

What the dude doesn't specifically mention in
the article is the connected brain. I've said it
before: 1+1=3, i.e., left brain plus right brain
equals third brain, that all-seeing eye in the
middle of the forehead. Let me know when you've
developed it.

He closes with...
In other words, go right, young man and woman, go right.

Leapfrog the right brain, left brain cults.

"Cycrops", as my Jap buddy usta say.

Go center.

Read.