Imagination age
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The Imagination Age is a theoretical period beyond the Information Age where creativity and imagination will become the primary creators of economic value. In contrast, the main activities of the Information Age are analysis and thinking. The concept holds that technologies like virtual reality, user created content and YouTube will change the way humans interact with each other and create economic and social structures. A key concept is that the rise of an immersive virtual reality—the cyberspace or the metaverse—will raise the value of "imagination work" done by designers, artists, etc. over rational thinking as a foundation of culture and economics.
Some argue that the Imagination Age has already started, given that imagination is the most valued skill in our modern society.
See also
- Attention economy
- Cognitive-cultural economy
- Cognitive Surplus, 2010 book
- Information society
- Indigo Era
- Netocracy, concept whereby power revolves around the ability to form and use networks and technological tools
- Post-scarcity economy