The Third Wave sector includes not only high-flying computer and electronics firms and biotech start-ups; it embraces advanced, information-driven manufacturing in every industry … The people in this sector will soon be the dominant constituency in American politics.
Predictor: Dyson, Esther
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “The Information Revolution,” edited by Donald Altschiller, carries a reprint of the Fall 1994, New Perspectives Quarterly article “Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age,” by social critics Esther Dyson, George Gilder, Jay Keyworth and Alvin Toffler. They write: ÒWho É will shape the nature of cyberspace and its impact on our lives and institutions? É We are witnessing a battle not so much over the nature of the future É but over the nature of the transition. On one side of this battle are the partisans of the industrial past. On the other are growing millions who recognize that the worldÕs most urgent problems can no longer be resolved within the massified frameworks we have inherited. The Third Wave sector includes not only high-flying computer and electronics firms and biotech start-ups; it embraces advanced, information-driven manufacturing in every industry. It includes the increasingly data-drenched services – finance, software, entertainment, the media, advanced communications, medical services, consulting, training and learning. The people in this sector will soon be the dominant constituency in American politics.Ó
Biography:Esther Dyson was founding editor of Release 1.0 and a consultant and expert on computing and high-tech applications. She served as the president of EDventure Holdings. She founded the PC Forum, an annual conference and industry event. She had the highest profile of the women of technology in the 1990s. (Futurist/Consultant.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: The Information Revolution (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 64, 65
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