Sunday 26 June 2016

Governments must embrace the Information Age or risk becoming obsolete

Governments must embrace the Information Age or risk becoming obsolete

Thirty-six years ago, American writer and futurist Alvin Toffler wrote his famous The Third Wave, outlining the inevitable transition from a “Second Wave,” characterized by an industrial society, to a “Third Wave,” characterized by what he calls the “Information Age.” The Information Age, as Toffler described, is defined by the shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on computerization or digital revolution.

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