Name: Anonymous 2010-04-08 13:44
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination_Age
The Imagination Age would be a society and culture dominated by an imagination economy. An imagination economy is defined by some thinkers as an economy where intuitive and creative thinking create economic value, after logical and rational thinking has been outsourced to other economies[5].
Michael Cox Chief Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas argues that economic trends show a shift away from information sector employment and job growth towards creative jobs. Jobs in publishing, he has pointed out are declining while jobs for designers, architects, actors & directors, software engineers and photographers are all growing. This shift in job creation is a sign the beginning of the Imagination Age [6]. The 21st century has seen a growth in games and interactive media jobs.[7]
Cox argues that the skills can be viewed as a “hierarchy of human talents” [8], with raw physical effort as the lowest form of value creation, above this skilled labor and information entry to creative reasoning and emotional intelligence. Each layer provides more value creation than the skills below it, and the outcome of globalization and automation is that labor is made available for higher levels skills that create more value. Presently theses skills are tending to be around imagination, social and emotional intelligence, and imagination.
The Imagination Age would be a society and culture dominated by an imagination economy. An imagination economy is defined by some thinkers as an economy where intuitive and creative thinking create economic value, after logical and rational thinking has been outsourced to other economies[5].
Michael Cox Chief Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas argues that economic trends show a shift away from information sector employment and job growth towards creative jobs. Jobs in publishing, he has pointed out are declining while jobs for designers, architects, actors & directors, software engineers and photographers are all growing. This shift in job creation is a sign the beginning of the Imagination Age [6]. The 21st century has seen a growth in games and interactive media jobs.[7]
Cox argues that the skills can be viewed as a “hierarchy of human talents” [8], with raw physical effort as the lowest form of value creation, above this skilled labor and information entry to creative reasoning and emotional intelligence. Each layer provides more value creation than the skills below it, and the outcome of globalization and automation is that labor is made available for higher levels skills that create more value. Presently theses skills are tending to be around imagination, social and emotional intelligence, and imagination.