Where the value is, revolution after revolution

some toughts with a friend…

Work used to value people for their muscles. Most of the value came from physical manipulation activities.

Then came the industrial revolution, with machinery reducing the predominance of the muscular effort.
And we used to value people for their brains. Most of the value came from their symbol manipulation activities.

Then came the digital revolution, with AI, Big Data and the Internet reducing the predominance of the brain effort.
Ad we will value people for their hearts. Most of the value will come from human relational activities.

We trained muscles for physical manipulations
We trained brains for symbol manipulations
We will need to train hearts for empathy and humanity

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