Annoy Mouse #67:

Yes, but years before Naisbitt came along, back in the mid-70′s the “post-industrial society” was a standard concept in the Left, pushed as part of the 60′s Anti-war counterculture.

I never understood just what it meant; like Obama it was what people chose to see in it. It was like AGW for an era in which they assured us a New Ice Age was coming. As an engineer I took it to mean de-emphasizing the productive professions in favor of others that are less inherently useful. I have no doubt to the Marxists it meant American weakness in all things.