Similar to the Age of Enlightenment, the Information Age has resulted in an immersion of information. The introduction of the internet, smartphones, and social media has made information easy to obtain without requiring any deductive reasoning or critical thinking. Daniel H. Pink author of A Whole New Mind discusses the idea of how our society is moving from the Informational Age into the Conceptual.
The Conceptual Age will be a result of the need for us to not just know the answers, but also become innovative with the knowledge we are gaining. Intelligence will occur from taking in knowledge and getting messy with it. We will have to pull knowledge apart, stretch it out, mix it up, and make the knowledge not just your own but new.
The Conceptual Age will be a result of the need for us to not just know the answers, but also become innovative with the knowledge we are gaining. Intelligence will occur from taking in knowledge and getting messy with it. We will have to pull knowledge apart, stretch it out, mix it up, and make the knowledge not just your own but new.