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16 INTRODUCTION

many left-brain tasks (toll takers, bank tellers, data analysts, etc.) in
the same way low technology took away the heavy lifting at the start of
the industrial revolution. Economist and investment advisor Harry
Dent, in his best-seller The Roaring 2000s, says that today’s big winners
will be those getting the most out of their right brains. Are you as ready
as you need to be for this revolution?

The information age is now the imagination age.

Over the centuries, selling ideas as a livelihood was the domain of
only a very few. The currency of our great-grandparents and the gener-
ations that preceded them was sweat. The industrial revolution took
away most of the heavy physical labor. Our parents’ generation began
more and more to make their livings with their minds instead of their
bodies. They thought for a living instead of doing the no-brainer work
that put food on their parents’ tables. It was a dramatic shift in how peo-
ple earned a living—their professional worth measured in brain power.
Fast-forward to the twenty-first century: Knowledge alone is sim-
ply not the edge it used to be in business. The most valuable currency

Creative thinking has never been more valued.

Right Brain

The
Information
Age
Manual Labor Mental Labor

Post-
Pre-
Industrial Industrial
Revolution Revolution
Left Brain

The dramatic shift in how we have earned our livelihoods.
The Information Age is now the Imagination Age.
2001 Before & After, Inc.