The Earth is billions of billion years old. The world evolved in that time through what we term as ‘ages’. There was the agricultural revolution where man evolved from a hunter-gatherer to a farmer. This age, the longest, lasted probably for more than 10,000 years. It has comparatively been a lightning progress for man since. It was the time of machines during the industrial age from 1750 to 1950 followed by information age between 1950 and 1990. Yes 1990; thereafter it was the age of knowledge till 2000. In the 21st century we are now in the age of intelligence.
Bill Gates realised this quite early and recognized that information or knowledge by itself is useless unless it is used to achieve something! His book Business @ the Speed of Thought written in 1999, hints that information / knowledge has to be converted into action at the speed of thought. Any extend of thinking within or out of the box will not help unless there is concurrent action. Information or knowledge has to be used through te medium of intelligence to achieve desired results. I will dare say that in this century, intelligence has to be cultivated by channelling the thought process...
In this age of intelligence time is the essence for result. Unlike for most part of the last century and earlier, information and knowledge is readily available at the press of a button (to use a cliché), intelligence and time is at a premium.
The process of constructive thinking will propogate thought that will result in fruitful action in some time ….the process of emotional thinking will result in........well….
……. next is the age of consciousness (bliss)…probably action will precede thought – or action will become irrelevant - not possible? – We will have to wait to know that…
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