Introduction
The world is undergoing a transformation that will move civilization to a new era of human endeavor. The futurist, Alvin Toffler, described where society could be headed. In The Third Wave, he envisioned a postindustrial period in which all of us would experience a “truly humane civilization.”1 Toffler analyzed how our species had progressed over thousands of years to remake civilization that was better and more advanced than the previous civilization. According to Toffler, the world had gone through a first wave to transform a primitive society into an agrarian society and a second wave to transform that agrarian society into an industrial society. In each case, Toffler surmised that humans needed ...
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