More IT Quotes From Alvin Toffler | IT THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Alvin Toffler’s books have informed an entire generation of
thinkers, and thus, He is a worthy addition to our IT Thought of the Day Quote of the Week Series. Today is our second entry in his series.

In The Third Wave he famously classified societies by what he called “waves”. This is from Wikipedia:

First Wave is the society after agrarian revolution and replaced the first hunter-gatherer cultures.
Second Wave is the society during the Industrial Revolution. The main components of the Second Wave society are nuclear family, factory-type education system and the corporation.
Third Wave is the post-industrial society. Toffler would also add that since late 1950s most countries are moving away from a Second Wave Society into what he would call a Third Wave Society. He coined lots of words to describe it and mentions names invented by him (super-industrial society) and other people (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").

I like Information Age quotations. I find some of them very inspirational and like to carry a new one around about every week. I thought that i could share mine with you from time to time.

Here is my quote of the day:

“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.”

- Alvin Toffler

You can learn more about our quote source at Wikipedia.

So how do you think that this relates to Information Technology? How do you think that it could be important to Information Technology Professionals?

Do you like quotations? Do you collect them, too? What did you think of when you read this one? Do you agree or disagree with it? Please comment below.

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 26, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.

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