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发帖数: 10208 | 1 First Wave is the society after agrarian revolution and replaced the first
hunter-gatherer cultures.
Second Wave is the society during the Industrial Revolution (ca. late 17th
century through the mid-20th century). The main components of the Second
Wave society are nuclear family, factory-type education system and the
corporation. Toffler writes: “The Second Wave Society is industrial and
based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass
education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of
mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization,
centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a
style of organization we call bureaucracy.”
Third Wave is the post-industrial society. According to Toffler, since the
late 1950s most nations have been moving away from a Second Wave Society
into what he would call a Third Wave Society, one based on actionable
knowledge as a primary resource. His description of this (super-industrial
society) dovetails into other writers' concepts (like the Information Age,
Space Age, Electronic Era, Global Village, technetronic age, scientific-
technological revolution), which to various degrees predicted
demassification, diversity, knowledge-based production, and the acceleration
of change (one of Toffler’s key maxims is “change is non-linear and can
go backwards, forwards and sideways”). |
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