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Western society is experiencing a series of technological revolutions: hardly have we come to grips with one when the next one is already upon us. The combination of changes will produce a society in the next century as different from the Industrial Society of a hundred years ago, as that Victorian period differed from the Palaeolithic era.
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© 1982 Tom Stonier and Peter Thornton
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Stonier, T., Thornton, P. (1982). Forecasts of Trends in the Post-Industrial Society. In: Twiss, B.C. (eds) Social Forecasting for Company Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04811-3_11
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