New Book Heralds the "Conceptual Age"

According to Dan Pink, contributing editor to Wired magazine, to "To flourish in this [new] age, we'll need to supplement our well-developed high tech abilities with aptitudes that are 'high concept' and 'high touch.'"
This article, "Revenge of the Right Brain: Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion," is adapted from his new book: A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age.

Here's an excerpt from the article:

"Beneath the nervous clatter of our half-completed decade stirs a slow but seismic shift. The Information Age we all prepared for is ending. Rising in its place is what I call the Conceptual Age, an era in which mastery of abilities that we've often overlooked and undervalued marks the fault line between who gets ahead and who falls behind.... To convince you, I'll explain the reasons for this shift, using the mechanistic language of cause and effect. The effect: the scales tilting in favor of right brain-style thinking. The causes: Asia, automation, and abundance...."