Transition: Information Age to Conceptual Age

I agree with the premise of this article from Dec 2009 ACM Communications: Computer science and IT can no longer afford to crank out more "plumbers." Design and user experience perspective as well as a cross discipline, collaborative and creative perspective is required just to get the ticket to play. IMHO, this is especially true for healthcare technologies.
Snippet that sums it up:

"The best way to think about the transition is to make the focus "the big idea or big concept" with a followon focus on how to build the concept and with what technologies."

Reminds me of this:



Direct link to ACM article:

Look Inside >>  December 2009