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unusual facts about industrial society


The Tripods

Life goes on largely as it had in the pre-industrial era, as all of humanity is subject to mental controls that prevent anyone from challenging the established order.


Brede Works

At the museum of Industrial culture, the visitors can be guided around by its own virtual person between old machines, hear how Denmark became an industrial society and even try to work at an assembly line.

Marty Neumeier

The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance between Business Strategy and Design, 2003, New Riders: A book about brand-building in the post industrial age.


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Modular art

Core characteristics of post-industrialism, as largely defined by the theorist Daniel Bell in his 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, include the emergence of a service economy in place of a manufacturing one; the social and economic pre-eminence of the creative, professional and technical classes; the central place of theoretical knowledge as a font of innovation; the strong influence of technology on daily life; and high levels of urbanization.

Unilineal evolution

The industrial society has a goal of production and trade, is decentralised, interconnected with other societies via economic relations, achieves its goals through voluntary cooperation and individual self-restraint, treats the good of individual as the highest value, regulates the social life via voluntary relations, and values initiative, independence and innovation.

Vic Allen

Allen was appointed a Lecturer at the University of Leeds in 1959 and became Professor of the Sociology of Industrial Society in the School of Economic Studies at Leeds in 1973.