1980年3月9日出版的《纽约时报杂志》,专文介绍了美国未来学者阿尔文·托夫勒的新作《第三次浪潮》。托夫勒认为,当前科学技术的高度发展促使了工业社会的解体,其对人类文明的影响正如一万年前农业社会的形成以及三百年前的工业革命一样意义重大。当今西方世界价值观、政治、经济、家庭结构诸方面的危机无不与此有重 The New York Times Magazine, published March 9, 1980, featured an introduction of the third wave of the new book by American future scholar Alvin Toffler. Toffler believes that the current high level of development in science and technology has prompted the dissolution of industrial society. Its impact on human civilization is just as significant as the formation of an agricultural society 10,000 years ago and the industrial revolution three hundred years ago. The crisis in the values, politics, economy and family structure in today’s western world is all the more important