"A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. The new civilization brings with it new family styles; changed ways of working, loving and living; a new economy; new political conflicts; and beyond all this an altered consciousness as well. Pieces of the new civilization exist today. Millions are attuning their lives to the rhythm of tomorrow. Others terrified of the future are engaged in a desperate, futile flight into the past and are trying to restore the dying world that gave them birth. The dawn of this new civilization is the single most explosive fact of our lifetimes." - First paragraph of the first chapter, “super struggle” of Alvin Toffler’s book The Third Wave, first appeared in the early 1980s.

Dr. James C. Spohrer
Director, IBM University Programs World-Wide (IBM UP)
Innovation Champion