"Symbolic analysts solve, identify, and broker problems by manipulating symbols. They simplify reality into abstract images that can be rearranged, juggled, experimented with, communicated to other specialists, and then, eventually, transformed back into reality. The manipulations are done with analytic tools, sharpened by experience. The tools may be mathematical algorithms, legal arguments, financial gimmicks, scientific principles, psychological insights about how to persuade or amuse, systems of induction or deduction, or any other set of techniques for doing conceptual puzzles."

"...In the older, high-volume economy. a 'professional' was one who had mastered a particular domain of knowledge. The knowledge existed in advance, ready to be mastered. It had been recorded in dusty tomes or codified in precise rules and formulae."

"But in the new economy - replete with unidentified problems, unknown solutions, and untried means of putting them together - mastery of old domains of knowledge isn't nearly enough to guarrantee a good income. Nor, importantly, is it even necessary. Symbolic analysts often draw upon established bodies of knowledge with the flick of a computer key. Facts, codes, formulae, and rules are accesible. What is much more valuable is the capacity to effectively and creatively *use* the knowledge."

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