Approximately 12,000 years ago, in what we now call the Middle East, people began to domesticate grain, which involved a process that slowly spread around the world over the next 6,000 to 7,000 years. In 1984, 8 percent of U. S. households had a computer; by 2008, that number was estimated to be above 70 percent. How do these two things relate to social change?

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Approximately 12,000 years ago, in what we now call the Middle East, people began to domesticate grain, which involved a process that slowly spread around the world over the next 6,000 to 7,000 years. In 1984, 8 percent of U. S. households had a computer; by 2008, that number was estimated to be above 70 percent. How do these two things relate to social change?

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Toffler believed that the technological changes taking place in Western society completely determine the course of socio-economic development as a whole and stimulate the processes of social change. Therefore, the history of society is characterized by a constant acceleration in development. Toffler proposed a periodization scheme for the history of human society, based on the identification of stages or waves of technological development: the first wave corresponds to the agrarian period (chronologically, this is the time before the industrial revolution began); the second wave is associated with the industrial revolution, industrialization and the scientific and technological revolution and marks the onset of the era of industrial society; the third wave is determined by the dominance of the production of services over the production of material goods and speaks of the formation of a super industrial society.