Toffler described the changes or waves that have occurred throughout history. Prior to identifying a new wave, one must understand that our current worldview may cause even the noblest of scholars to oversimplify what Toffler identified as a Wave. Even though it may appear that we have entered a Fourth Wave, much of our advances in the past decades are consistent with those of the Third Wave which were first posited by Toffler in 1980. Despite the digital revolution and the advent of the internet, we are too mired in a dependence on exhaustible fuels and ideological conflicts to truly warrant a departure from the Third Wave. Granted, communication is arguably at its highest level and individuals are able to access and share information about any topic from the most sensitive to the absolutely banal; however, conflicts between the Second Wave and Third have not completely subsided.
The Fourth Wave, once it is truly formed, will include the development of clean and sustainable fuels which completely replace fossil fuels, a focus on a knowledge-based economic model, and a wider view of tolerance based on humanistic rather than dogmatic ideology.
A basic time line of the First Strand follows: A Fourth Wave?
Reference
Toffler, A. (1980). The third wave. New York: Bantam Books.
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