“Design is the soul of a man-made creation”. –Steve Jobs.
“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones”.–Herbert Simon, Social Scientist and Nobel Laureate.
As I look out over the landscape of what I call the “Final 1/3 of Life” (age 60-90) in America today I see an uncharted territory. Never before have all the forces attendant with the present chaos in the economy, the questions surrounding health care, longer life spans, eroding assets and shifting family structures come together to make the way forward feel so slippery, so treacherous.