TheComingofPostIndustrialSociety_AVentu.epub

Praise for The Coming of Post-Industrial Society “It is rare in social science to find a study that fundamentally changes our perception of the way the world works. Daniel Bell’s The Coming of Post- Industrial Society accomplished such a feat. First published in 1973, it was an instant classic. Bell’s highly informative and engaging new introduction makes this powerful work even more compelling.” —William Fulius Wilson Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University (1999) “A quarter century ago, Dan Bell was prescient when he published his classic on post-industrial society. With this brilliant new foreword he remains ahead in linking his past insights to the new information age.” —Foseph S. Nye, Fr. Dean of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1999) “Daniel Bell introduced the concept of post-industrial technology in the first edition of this work, and it has now become universal. His additional essay brings together in a short compass both a sharp characterization of the special features of the new technology which has developed so much in the interim, yet along lines he already fores......