It’s The Knowledge-Based Economy, Stupid!

Allen November 30th, 2004

Sorry for the light blogging of late, but work and home have conspired once again to trump blogging. Will resume more volume when I get a chance. Yes, I realize that I have few regular readers, but didn’t want anyone to think I’ve gone Allah on them or something.

So one quick note and then I’m back off to work on several pressing matters at work.

Listening to NPR on the way to work today when I heard some radio commentation say something along the lines of “in today’s knowledge-based economy”.

It’s always been a knowledge-based economy.

Some bushman out in the savannah hunting antelope knows the best places to hide and the right kind of wood to use for his spear is using knowledge. His mate who knows the better berry bushes to gather at? Using knowledge. Hunter-gatherer society? Perhaps, but it really boils down to knowing how to be the better hunter-gatherer.

Some silversmith in US colonial times casts a platter for a client. Artisan society? Perhaps, but if he’s studied he knows the ways to cast silver so that the platter comes out better with less waste. Knowledge-based economy.

Those that realize it’s always been a knowledge based economy will come out ahead of others who think they are a farmer, or a silversmith, or a ….

Solve problems using knowledge and you’ll probably always have at least some type of job.

But if you think of yourself as a unemployed factory worker who just knows how to assemble transistor radios…

[BTW: Quick update on NaNoWriMo: Can't get the laptop to talk to the wireless network, so I can't post what I've got so far]

4 Responses to “It’s The Knowledge-Based Economy, Stupid!”

  1. # unixdudeon 30 Nov 2004 at 12:27 pm

    Those who know how will always have a job.
    Those who know why will always be their boss.

    I don’t know who said it, but it’s stuck with me.

  2. # unixdudeon 30 Nov 2004 at 12:28 pm

    Glad to see you back, and know that you’re okay. I was just about to ring the local dairy and have them put your mug on their milk cartons.

  3. # Allenon 30 Nov 2004 at 10:34 pm

    Jim-

    I like that quote. With your permission I’ll research it out and rotate it in to the “quote” section of the blog.

    Spent lots of time with family and in-laws. Didn’t get much writing or blogging done, but really, that’s all OK in the grand scheme of things.

  4. # unixdudeon 01 Dec 2004 at 12:14 pm

    RE: The quote
    Please feel free, my friend. I wish I could remember where or from whom I heard it.

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