Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave

EDUC 8840, Evolution of Technology

April CarpenterMarch 17, 2013

Agricultural Age• 1600 - 1750

Industrial Age• 1750 - 1950

Information Age• 1950 - 2000

Collaboration• 2000 -

present

Timeline Strands

Alvin Toffler’s Three Waves Timeline Strands

• Strand 1:  Toffler's three waves, and the fourth wave if you

believe we have entered one

• Strand 2:  Technology:  Key advances and innovations for each

decade

• Strand 3:  Work:  Business and corporate philosophies by decade

• Strand 4:  Education:  Important Theories of learning and

instruction by decade

• Strand 5:  Society and culture:  Events that determined the

thinking of each decade

• Strand 6: Other - Your choice of an area to highlight

Strand 1: Wave Theory

The First Wave: The Agricultural Age• Time Frame: 1600 – 1750

The Second Wave: The Industrial Age

• Time frame: 1750 – 1950

The Third Wave: The Information Age

• Time frame: 1950 - 2000

The Fourth Wave: The Collaborative Age• Time frame: 2000 - Present

References

Toffler, Alvin (1980). The third wave. New York, NY: Bantam Books.