A select few theoreticians -- videlicet Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Manuel Castells -- argue that we are in the middle of the transformation or transition from industrian socities to post-modern societies. A triggering technology for the vary from either an agricultural to an industrial organisation was steam power, allowing mass production & reducing a argicultural act necessary. Identified when catalyst or even even clean-cut for the transition to post-postmodernist or informational society is global information technology.

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