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A Correlation between Design Thinking and our Changing World
To be effective in this new world, you will need to master the skills of empathy and teamwork, as well as leadership and driving change. You will need to know how to function in a world that is not a hierarchy but a kaleidoscopic global team of teams, with no boundaries between sectors and change that happens at an escalating pace.
About seven years ago I started having this sense that our world was starting to go through an unprecedented transformational change. There have only been a few periods like this in all of human history. I knew it had something to do with the internet and computers but I did not have a very clear understanding of what it is all about.
When I started in the HCI/d program at IU, some of the pieces of the puzzle started to fall in place. This semester I am taking a New Media course taught by Christian Briggs. I have been reading Marshall McLuhan's book, "Understanding Media" and Lev Manovich's "The Language of New Media". Suddenly, big pieces of the puzzle started coming together.
Along the way I developed this concept that design thinking principles could not only help me learn to be an interaction designer but they were also preparing me to be better equipped to function in this new world we are growing towards. When I read this article by Bill Drayton, the excerpt above seemed to jump off the screen.
