Cosmic Playroom Music

We can ignore the connections between the energy crisis and the personality crisis, between new technologies and new sexual roles, and other such hidden interrelationships. But we do so at our peril. For what is happening is larger than any of these. Once we think in terms of successive waves of interrelated change, of the collision of these waves, we grasp the essential fact of our generation – that industrialism is dying away – and we can begin searching among signs of change for what is truly new, what is no longer industrial. We can identify the Third Wave. It is this Third Wave of change that will frame the rest of our lives. If we are to smooth the transition between the old dying civilization and new one that is taking form, if we are to maintain a sense of self and the ability to manage our own lives through the intensifying crisis that lie ahead, we must be able to recognize – and create – Third Wave innovations. For if we look closely around us we find, crisscrossing the manifestations of failure and collapse, early signs of growth and new potential. If we listen closely we can hear the Third Wave already thundering on not so distant shores.
Alvin Toffler – The Third Wave