The skills revolution, not globalization, is driving economic change, writes David Brooks in the New York Times.
We’re moving into a more demanding cognitive age. In order to thrive, people are compelled to become better at absorbing, processing and combining information.
. . . 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 — 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?
Democrats have been blaming foreigners for our economic problems, he writes. Hillary Clinton compared people who’ve lost their jobs to overseas competition to people arrested by the Gestapo and sent to concentration camps. Brooks argues the bumpy brain is more important the flat world.
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