[squeakland] Teaching in digital society vs industrial society

Benjamin L. Russell DekuDekuplex at Yahoo.com
Tue Aug 17 05:41:04 EDT 2010


Carlos Rabassa <carnen at mac.com> writes:

> Who is the speaker in this video_
>
> ¿Quién es el orador en este video?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Toffler

As the Wikipedia entry that you reference indicates, Alvin Toffler is
the author of _The Third Wave_ [1], a work which described the evolution
of information society as a sequence of waves--agrarian, industrial, and
post-industrial.  This book was also the basis for a Japanese NHK
television documentary in the early 1980's.

I watched that documentary back in circa 1981, and was fascinated
especially with Toffler's discussion of telecommuting.  There is an
interesting nytimes.com article [2] describing the "star treatment" that
Toffler got in Japan in 1980-81.

-- Benjamin L. Russell

[1] Toffler, Alvin.  _The Third Wave._ New York: William Morrow & Co.,
Inc.,
1980. Print. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(book)>.

[2] McDowell, Edwin. "Publishing: Authors Get Star Treatment in Japan."
_The New York Times,_ 20 Feb. 1981. Web. 17
Aug. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/20/books/publishing-authors-get-star-treatment-in-japan.html>.
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