http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2006_summer/02_toffler.html
Above all, the emerging new civilization is a civilization of choice.
choice in religion _ see T. Leary>
Monogamy won’t go away, but polygamy may gain wider acceptance.
that's PolyAmory!
Kenichi Ohmae, the Japanese management expert, calls cyberspace “the new continent” where entrepreneurial explorers are seeking—and making—their fortunes.
Toffler | Absolutely, this is another aspect of the “third job.” In an information-based system, everything is out there. Some consumer advocates are already starting to demand payment for the sale and use of their personal information, whether revealed by their purchases at the supermarket or a visit to a Web site.
All this is just the beginning. We are going to see an explosion of unpaid work. Soon there will be 1 billion people over 60. They will be using new technologies, from self-diagnosis to toilet urinalysis, to do for themselves what doctors used to do.
This acceleration can transform current knowledge into what we call “obsoledge”—outdated information—overnight. Time and the rapid decay of knowledge are very much related in an information society.
Toffler | One of the key problems in the world today is de-synchronization—“the clash of speeds” between the old, lumbering mass system and the new diversity, flexibility and acceleration demanded of institutions built on knowledge. They are out of sync.
Toffler | What we saw on the streets of Paris was “wave conflict”—the conflict that arises from the shift out of a “second wave” mass society to a “third wave” knowledge society; it is a battle between those who benefit from the old system and those who would benefit from the new.
It is the small states—Finland or Ireland, for example—that are in sync with the revolution now under way. NPQ |http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2006_summer/02_toffler.html
see Shadow Work by Ivan Illich>
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