In Revenge of the Right Brain, Daniel Pink sees a future where being technologically savvy isn't enough :
This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/02/why-is-forever.html
This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/02/why-is-forever.html
The point missed about the long-term aspect is that wages will inevitably creep up to parity over the long-term. This is fundamental to the theory of globalisation. The challenge is to ensure that parity is achieved by raising one party without lowering the other.
I think the shift to conceptual mastery over technical mastery is also driven by advancement in the tools themselves. I personally never get that close to the metal, nor do most developers need to. Of course, the law of leaky abstractions http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html does still apply.
The Dream Society is a book a danish futurist wrote about five years ago. It answers the question about what comes after the information society.
http://www.dreamcompany.dk/en/contribution/books/dreamsociety.php
The answers in the book are fairly similar to the topics coming up in this discussion – Creativity and Play will become more and more important in our day-to-day experiences.
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