Multidimensionality: building the mind/brain infrastructure for the next generation knowledge worker

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a new understanding of the multidimensionality of the knowledge worker of the future, and develop an approach to building the mind/brain infrastructure in support of sustainability.Design/methodology/approach – The many dimensions of the mind/brain are explored as they specifically relate to knowledge work in a changing, uncertain, complex, anxious (CUCA) environment. Along the way four tenets are forwarded that directly impact the knowledge worker, leading to a discussion of building the infrastructure (capacities) of the mind/brain in support of sustainability.Findings – As the close relationship among the characteristics of the Net Generation and those characteristics that support survival in a CUCA world is looked at, it appears that the future of knowledge work is close at hand and in the right hands. There is already a level of co‐evolving with the environment that is occurring in the Net Generation. Four tenets are forwarded and supported: in a CUCA...