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After The Flood 11/26/2005 9:31:56 AM
Alvin and Heidi Toffler's Third Wave (Click Here) offers a poltical/economic metaphor for the death of the Industrial Age. Does the aftermath of Katrina, Rita, and recent tsunami floods tell us anything about the coming chaos before world civilization enters the Cyber-Age?
It has been difficult for me to let go of the Pisces Age ideas of my childhood and youth. The days of the printed mail-order catalog, the horse-drawn ice wagon, and the Amos & Andy radio show are long gone -- but the political/economic ideas of those days prevail.
The idea that "the government" can support and protect the people has outgrown Otto von Bismark's "welfare state." With the educational and communication power of The Internet -- and greater things to come -- we are left with the wreckage after the Third Wave with it's revolutions, wars, and terrorism recedes.
Just as recovery from physical floods means starting all over again, recovery from the idea of "top-down" politics, economics, and religion may be with us for generations to come.
Cyber-Civilization (see www.cyber-civilization.com) puts government, management, religion, and labor in the hands of individuals with a handful of computer-chips wired together in a box with a keyboard!
