The Third Wave; The Classic Study of the Future.

Character towns can benefit from Toffler’s work.The Third Wave; The Classic Study of the Future was written by Alvin Toffler in 1980, over 30 years ago. It still offers ideas and insights useful in designing today’s small cities and towns. Mr. Toffler is an incredibly smart guy with a deep and fertile understanding of the past and a great perspective on the future. As one reads his analyses and forecasts, one quickly appreciates the march of history through the first and second waves. His anticipation for the economic evolution of mankind into the third wave is useful and applicable to contemporary city planning and prepares the way for confronting the fourth wave with cognitive machines

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