Information Era:
The Agricultural Era prospered those who owned land and controlled labor. The Industrial Era rewarded those savvy business people with assets like steel factories.
The Information Era rewards those who can adapt to change and who precede gain with generosity.
Author and social philosopher Peter Drucker writes that we are now in:"The Age of Social Transformation. In this age, the dominant group will be the "knowledge workers" who have replaced the industrial workers and the agricultural workers who dominated in previous generations."
John Huey, of Fortune magazine writes:
"Take a moment out of the heat of your current pitched battle, and chew on the implications of this thought: We are, right now, in the very early stages of a new economy, one whose core is as fundamentally different from it's predecessors as, say, the automobile age was from the agricultural era. If you grasp this premise, it's much easier to understand a lot of what's going on around you....... to recognize the new economy for what it is, to track it's progress, and then to foresee it's consequences could be crucial to prevailing--or surviving--in it. We must embrace it, for it will transform our lives and the way we work more profoundly than we can imagine--and nothing is going to stop it"
