Technology and its Evolution: Timeline Presented By: 1

The Agricultural Age First Wave: The Agricultural Age BC The principal wave time was the first defining moment in human social improvement, and overwhelmed the earth unchallenged until AD (Toffler, 1980). Prior to the First wave of progress, most people existed in little, frequently transitory gatherings and encouraged themselves by scavenging, angling, chasing, or grouping. Eventually, approximately ten centuries back, the rural unrest started, and it crawled gradually over the planet spreading towns, settlements, developed area, and another lifestyle. 2

Industrial Age Second Wave: The Industrial Age is the general public amid the Industrial Revolution (ca. late 1600s through the mid-1900s). The primary parts of the Second Wave society are atomic family, industrial facility sort training framework and the partnership. Toffler composes: "The Second Wave Society is modern and focused around large scale manufacturing, mass conveyance, mass utilization, mass training, broad communications, mass entertainment, mass excitement, and weapons of mass demolition. Which consolidate those things with institutionalization, centralization, focus, and synchronization, and you end up with a style of association we call administration." (Toffler, 1980) 3

Information Age Third Wave: The Information Age Third Wave is the post-modern culture. Toffler would likewise include that since late 1950s most nations are moving far from a Second Wave Society into what he would call a Third Wave Society. He begat loads of words to portray it and notice names created by him (super-mechanical society) and other individuals (like the Information Age, Space Age, Electronic Era, Global Village, technetronic age, logical innovative transformation), which to different degrees anticipated demassification, differences, information based creation, and the speeding up of progress (one of Toffler's key sayings is "change is non-straight and can go rearward, advances and sideways"). 4

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