The transition from the earlier hunter-gatherer societies to the agrarian and agricultural societies is also known as the Neolithic Revolution. He coined many words to describe it and mentions names invented by others, such as the Information Age. Toffler says that since the late 1950s most countries have been transitioning from a Second Wave society into a Third Wave society. The Third Wave is the post-industrial society.You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy." "The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. Key aspects of Second Wave society are the nuclear family, a factory-type education system and the corporation. The Second Wave began in Western Europe with the Industrial Revolution, and subsequently spread across the world.
The Second Wave is Industrial Age society.
The First Wave is the settled agricultural society which prevailed in much of the world after the Neolithic Revolution, which replaced hunter-gatherer cultures.In the book Toffler describes three types of societies, based on the concept of 'waves'-each wave pushes the older societies and cultures aside.