<p>There is an interesting article in today's Boston Globe about a book by Daniel Pink, "A Whole New Mind". Those of us who are about to spend thousands to send our children to arts schools should find some comfort in his take on the future of the US workforce.</p>
<p>The following is a quote, "It may seem hard to believe, since we are all up to our screen-reddened eyeballs in an Information Age that seems to be all about left-brain dominance, but Pink insists that a ''Conceptual Age" is upon us. Thanks to a combination of globalization, outsourcing, and technology, many traditional white-collar jobs are either disappearing or being shipped overseas. When coupled with a growth in ''nonmaterial yearnings," he says, that paves the way for a US economy in which an MFA will be a more potent credential than an MBA, and growing clout will be wielded by creators, inventors, and storytellers."</p>