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100 years ago was still an extension of the industrial revolution, where solutions were designed for the masses: mass media, mass education, mass production...
by partycoder 10y ago
100 years ago was still an extension of the industrial revolution, where solutions were designed for the masses: mass media, mass education, mass production... there were mass produced standardized solutions that you had to adapt to.
The information age or post-industrial society we live in today an inverse process: a process of decentralization and customization, where consumers want personalized solutions rather than adapt themselves to an average/massive solution.
- usrusr 10y agoThe world is far from post-industrial. Industry has just self-organised into clusters that have little overlap with the industrial clusters of old.
- partycoder 10y agoPost-industrial society is when services have a more important role in the economy than manufacturing. Doesn't mean manufacturing doesn't exist. Now, the world isn't uniform with respect to progress. There are still pre-industrial societies where most jobs are concentrated around agriculture, and industrial societies where all jobs concentrate in manufacturing.