Cyberspace And The American Dream: A Magna Carta For The Knowledge Age

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Term Paper Title	Cyberspace And The American Dream: A Magna Carta For The Knowledge Age
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Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age

Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age

This statement represents the cumulative wisdom and innovation of many dozens of
people.  It is based primarily on the thoughts of four "co-authors": Ms.  Esther
Dyson; Mr. George Gilder; Dr. George Keyworth; and Dr. Alvin Toffler.  This
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Preamble

The central event of the 20th century is the overthrow of matter. In technology,
economics, and the politics of nations, wealth -- in the form of physical
resources -- has been losing value and significance. The powers of mind are
everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

In a First Wave economy, land and farm labor are the main "factors of
production." In a Second Wave economy, the land remains valuable while the
"labor" becomes massified around machines and larger industries. In a Third Wave
economy, the central resource -- a single word broadly encompassing data,
information, images, symbols, culture, ideology, and values -- is actionable
knowledge.

The industrial age is not fully over. In fact, classic Second Wave sectors (oil,
steel, auto-production) have learned how to benefit from Third Wave
technological breakthroughs -- just as the First Wave's agricultural
productivity benefited exponentially from the Second Wave's farm-mechanization.

But the Third Wave, and the Knowledge Age it has opened, will not deliver on its
potential unless it adds social and political dominance to its accelerating
technological and economic strength. This means repealing Second Wave laws and
retiring Second Wave attitudes. It also gives to leaders of the advanced
democracies a special responsibility -- to facilitate, hasten, and explain the
transition.

As humankind explores...

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