However, Neil Postman claimed that there are five things we definitely can know about technological change (Postman, 1998). To qualify Postman’s proclamation it is necessary to explore the findings of research conducted on the study of previous technological revolutions. Professor Carlotta Perez, in her paper Technological Revolutions and Techno-economic Paradigms, researched five successive technological revolutions and found that technological innovations reveal a pattern in the way they diffuse (Perez, 2009). It is my contention that there is nothing unique about this techno-economic paradigm shift except the innovations. The diffusion patterns that Postman and Perez described will repeat themselves, according to socio-economic patterns, in the conceptual age with the help of the Net Generation in order to form the new infrastructure of information based on social knowledge. The analysis begins with a deconstruction of Dr. Walker’s challenge to all those who speculate about the future of
However, Neil Postman claimed that there are five things we definitely can know about technological change (Postman, 1998). To qualify Postman’s proclamation it is necessary to explore the findings of research conducted on the study of previous technological revolutions. Professor Carlotta Perez, in her paper Technological Revolutions and Techno-economic Paradigms, researched five successive technological revolutions and found that technological innovations reveal a pattern in the way they diffuse (Perez, 2009). It is my contention that there is nothing unique about this techno-economic paradigm shift except the innovations. The diffusion patterns that Postman and Perez described will repeat themselves, according to socio-economic patterns, in the conceptual age with the help of the Net Generation in order to form the new infrastructure of information based on social knowledge. The analysis begins with a deconstruction of Dr. Walker’s challenge to all those who speculate about the future of