Life is getting more complex.
Take seriously for a moment Steven Johnson’s notion of the “Sleeper Curve” from his book “Everything Bad is Good for You”. He argues that contrary to current in-house wisdom, video games, television and films – mainstays of the nonliterary popular culture – are getting more challenging, increasingly complex, and inviting of a new type of “cognitive labor” particularly suited to an information-flooded, technology-driven, and network-obsessed society.
And that’s just pop culture. In health care, complexity is off the charts.
See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog.
