The Design Economy

I just found this, which is another entry on the concept that we have already moved beyond the Information Age into the Age of Creativity, or, as it is called here, The Design Economy.

This quote comes from an article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, but I found it on a blog about media, religion, culture.

There's something happening here. While the Religious Right is getting all of the mainstream press coverage, people are looking for ways to connect with each other through arts and culture and churches are providing those places.

ryan torma: The Design Economy: [Quoted from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune] "The information economy is still with us. But the paradoxical effect of the Internet is that it has made information so widely available that it holds no real economic value. Everybody can get incredible amounts of information, so there's no competitive advantage of having it. The idea of the design economy is that, for developed countries like ours, which cannot compete in a global marketplace on price or even quite often on the quality of a product, we have to compete on the basis of innovation, creativity and imagination, which takes you to design. By design, I don't mean just aesthetics but function and cultural adaptability."

From the blog that cited the above quote:

"Jesus is a commodity. No one needs churches or clergy to tell them about Jesus or any other religion for that matter, it can all be found somewhere else. The design economy holds true for faith communities as well, churches will be judged by how well, or not, they help live their faith, not on their ability to provide information."

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