CMNS 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 8: Exchange Economy, Participatory Democracy, Economy 7
1 Nov 2016
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Readings: dyson, esther, george gilder, george keyworth, and alvin toffler (2004) cyberspace and the american dream in the information society reader, edited by frank webster. New york: routledge: 31-42: masuda, yoneji (2004) image of the future in the information society reader, edited by. New york: routledge: 15-20: castells, manuel (2007) communication, power and counter-power in the network. The central event of the 20th century is the overthrow of matter. In technology, economics, and the politics of nations, wealth in the form of physical resources has been losing value and significance. First wave economy land & farm labour are the main factors in production . The industrial age is not fully over. Second wave sectors (oil, steel, auto production) have learned to benefit from third wave technological break throughs just as the first wave agricultural productive productivity beneficial exponentially from the second waves farm-mechanization.
