Linking Thinking

The Cognitive Age

May 27th, 2008

David Brooks explains that economic change is not the product of globalization, but rather a skills revolution in the Cognitive Age:

The globalization paradigm emphasizes the fact that information can now travel 15,000 miles in an instant. But the most important part of information’s journey is the last few inches of the space between a person’s eyes or ears and the various regions of the brain. Does the individual have the capacity to understand the information? Does he or she have the training to exploit it? Are there cultural assumptions that distort the way it is perceived?

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