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AlvinToffler
Pre-reading
AlvinToffler(1928-2016)isanAmeriwriterandfuturist.BorninNewYorkdeduewYorkUy,AlvinTofflerisoiialporarysokers.
StartingwiththeirgrlobalbestsellingclassicsFutureShock(1970)ahirdWave(1980),AlvinandhiswifeHeidiTofflerhavehelpedmulti-millionsofreadersaroundtheatethesweepiomorrow.
Iherbooks,theTofflersdecadesagoanticipatedg,virtualreality,s,informationoverload,roduization,the“de-massifiassmedia,thethreatofterrorismandmauresofporarylife.Butiofflers’works,thesedisparateforecastsareallmeredetailsereofthemhavemissedthemark—wearestillwaitingforthe“paperlessoffice”
.Butfewtodaygethetral,sweepiheirworksihemid-1960s—thataknowledge-basedneweywasarisiheindustrialage.Thisotedggoversandthinkersarouoffler’slatestwork,Revolutioh(2006),isabookonthedynamiyoftomorroork,runpanies,raisefamilies,ihinkaboutbothmoneyaackskeyfeaturesofaleicsasitpaintstheemergingglobal“wealthsystem”
ofthedecadesahead.Eachoftheirbookshasbeenhailedfinality,dunusualinsightintothedangersandpromisesaswellasgesandopportunitiesragto>
Alviofflerareknownaroundtheworldfortheirworkthathasinfluesaers,topleadersinfieldsrangingfrombusianizations,aswellaseducators,psychologistsandsotists.AsTimemagazi,they“setthestandardbywhichallsubsequentwould-befuturistshavebeenmeasured.”
ThefollowiakenfromChapter13ofTheThird>
Promptsf
1.Theword“de-massify”
isaedwordbytheauthor.Howisitformedandhowwouldyouismeaning?
2.Inwhatwayareimagessignifittoourlifeanda?
3.Whatdoestheauthormeanby“awarehouseofimages”
(Paragraph2)?
4.Judgingfromthetext,whatdoyouthiheFirstWaveandtheSedectively?
5.WhatcharacterizestheFirstWaveimagesandhowdotheimagesdefipeople’sbehavinition?
6.WhatcharacterizestheSedWaveimagesandhowdotheimagesdefipeople’sbehavinition?
7.Howdoneersandmagazihird>
&hesamegehappentoradioandTV?
9.WhyisthecablesystemofpartiifitheThirdWaveuni?
10.Ihirdapers,magazines,radioandTVallunderges.Butthesegesallseemtopoie.Whatisit?
11.TheThirdritteheyear1980.hetisandvisioedinthispart?
[1]Aninformationbombisexplodinginourmidst1,shusnelofimagesanddrastigingthewayeachofusperdaourprivateworld.InshiftingfromaSedWavetoaThirdWaveinfo-sphere,wearetransfourownpsyches.
[2]Eachofushisskullamind-modelofreality—awarehouseofimages.Someofthesearevisual,othersauditory,eventaeareoraationaboutoure,likeaglimpseofblueskyseenfromtheeroftheeye.es”
thatdefiionships,likethetwowords“mother”
and“earesimple,othersplexaual,liketheideathat“inflationiscausedbyrisihersuchimagesadduptoourpictureoftheworld—logusintime,spadtheworkofpersoionshipsaroundus.
[3]Theseimagesdfromheyareformed,iuand,outofthesignalsorinfusfromthee.Andasourevulseswithge—asourjobs,homes,churches,sdpolitigemeheimpactoftheThirdWave—theseaofinformationaroundusalsoges.
[4]Beforetheadventofmassmedia,aFirstWavechildgrowingupinaslowlygvillagebuilthisorhermodelofrealityoutofimagesreatinyhandfulofsources—theteacher,thepriest,thechieforoffid,aboveall,thefamily.Aspsychologist-futuristHerbertGerjuoy2hasherewasnotelevisionorradioiogivethechildaakindsersfrommawalksoflifeandevenfromdifferenttries...Veryfewpeopleeversawafncity...Theresult[lehadonlyasmallnumberofdiffereateormodelthemselvesafter...Theirchoiceswereeveedbythefactthatthepeopletheyselvesafterwerethemselvesalloflimitedexperieherpeople.”
Theimagesoftheworldbuiltupbythevillagechild,therefore,wereextremelynarre.Themessagesheorshereceived,morehlyredundantiwoseheycame,usually,intheformofcasualspeech,whiallyfilledwithpausesaions,andtheytheformofected“strings”
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