Comments on: The Conceptual Age http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2005/02/01/the-conceptual-age/ Web professional with deep frontend engineering expertise skilled in user experience design and product strategy. Successful team leader, manager, and executive. Sought-after speaker, writer, and trainer. Mon, 24 May 2010 15:52:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: lantzilla http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2005/02/01/the-conceptual-age/comment-page-1/#comment-141 lantzilla Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://nate.koechley.com/blog/?p=269#comment-141 That's really eerie. I've been think a lot about this lately. I first started pondering this when I was wondering about the future of the working class. If your "knowledge" job goes to India, and your "manufacturing" job goes to Mexico, and your "service" job gets replaced by a self-service kiosk, what's left? Surely, its not as draconian as all that, but it gets you thinking about patterns. I've been noodling a bit about the evolution of economies. Merchantisism==>Industrial (Mining) ==> Manufacturing==>Service==>Knowledge==>??? I've been toying with the idea of a Creative Economy. That gets pretty dodgy considering the very left-brained focus of our Educational system. Our students are learning to follow formulas without emphasizing the creation of new ones. I was reading an article in Wired magazine regarding the outsourcing of jobs to India. It further explained how certain other jobs were very difficult to export. Design (and other right-brain disciplines) were cited. Thanks for the article! I'll see if I can't dig up that article and forward it to you. That’s really eerie. I’ve been think a lot about this lately. I first started pondering this when I was wondering about the future of the working class. If your “knowledge” job goes to India, and your “manufacturing” job goes to Mexico, and your “service” job gets replaced by a self-service kiosk, what’s left? Surely, its not as draconian as all that, but it gets you thinking about patterns. I’ve been noodling a bit about the evolution of economies. Merchantisism==>Industrial (Mining) ==> Manufacturing==>Service==>Knowledge==>??? I’ve been toying with the idea of a Creative Economy. That gets pretty dodgy considering the very left-brained focus of our Educational system. Our students are learning to follow formulas without emphasizing the creation of new ones. I was reading an article in Wired magazine regarding the outsourcing of jobs to India. It further explained how certain other jobs were very difficult to export. Design (and other right-brain disciplines) were cited. Thanks for the article! I’ll see if I can’t dig up that article and forward it to you.

]]> By: Jason http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2005/02/01/the-conceptual-age/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Jason Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://nate.koechley.com/blog/?p=269#comment-142 I think when I retire, I'm gonna be a coffeehouse barista. No, seriously, I always take these visions of the future with a grain of salt. There's a lot of folks who still only use the internet for basic functions: email, looking up airline tickets, finding movie times. Many still use traditional media like the newspaper and the phone. (Do telephones qualify now as a "traditional" medium? How time flies.) It's easy to think that "the world" is moving in a certain direction just because your little portion of the Venn diagram is. The rest of the U.S. is still moving through the Information Age, or hasn't even hit "the information age" yet. Remember when "pattern recognizers" and "creators" were just inventors? Why this need to relabel everything to make it sound glorious? I'm skeptical. I've been skeptical since it became clear that I'd never receive my cybernetic implants (no Chiba-made eyes for nearsighted me!) and wouldn't jack directly into the 'Net. I think when I retire, I’m gonna be a coffeehouse barista.

No, seriously, I always take these visions of the future with a grain of salt. There’s a lot of folks who still only use the internet for basic functions: email, looking up airline tickets, finding movie times. Many still use traditional media like the newspaper and the phone. (Do telephones qualify now as a “traditional” medium? How time flies.) It’s easy to think that “the world” is moving in a certain direction just because your little portion of the Venn diagram is. The rest of the U.S. is still moving through the Information Age, or hasn’t even hit “the information age” yet.

Remember when “pattern recognizers” and “creators” were just inventors? Why this need to relabel everything to make it sound glorious?

I’m skeptical. I’ve been skeptical since it became clear that I’d never receive my cybernetic implants (no Chiba-made eyes for nearsighted me!) and wouldn’t jack directly into the ‘Net.

]]> By: Jason http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2005/02/01/the-conceptual-age/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Jason Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://nate.koechley.com/blog/?p=269#comment-143 Oh snap, Typepad ate my linebreaks! The future is now and it's broken. ;) Oh snap, Typepad ate my linebreaks! The future is now and it’s broken. ;)

]]> By: Bob Koechley http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2005/02/01/the-conceptual-age/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Bob Koechley Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://nate.koechley.com/blog/?p=269#comment-144 I also continue to find WIRED among the best source for thought provoking views seldom mentioned elsewhere. The Conceptual Age in the current issue is a perfect evample. I was raised to believe that the future demanded us to be educated in the broadest sense; literature, history, philosophy etc. in contrast to mastering C++ or Perl or radiology. The humanities are concerned with the persistant features of human nature and provide the best tools to prepare for the future. bk I also continue to find WIRED among the best source for thought provoking views seldom mentioned elsewhere. The Conceptual Age in the current issue is a perfect evample.

I was raised to believe that the future demanded us to be educated in the broadest sense; literature, history, philosophy etc. in contrast to mastering C++ or Perl or radiology. The humanities are concerned with the persistant features of human nature and provide the best tools to prepare for the future.

bk

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