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(1)     hunting‑and‑gathering societies;

(2)     agricultural societies; and

(3)     industrial societies.

Now, looming over the horizon is something entirely new, the fourth stage of social organization: Information societies. 

We have lived in an evolving world of high-tech that has permeated every corner of our society. The last 10 years has exploded communication and collaboration applications that are evolving in a manner, which empowers individual Users with revenue creating tools. Individuals will need these tools as they find more loss of manufacturing (Industrial Age) jobs, just ask the United Auto Workers; their jobs are never coming back.

Paradigm shifts change the rules and when the rules change so does the world.  The most significant shift in historical record was the shift from an Agricultural society to a Industrial society.  Triggered in major part by a signature technology called the printing press, the feudal system in which the Vatican (Church) reigned supreme, came crashing down.  That transition period is marked on one side by the Dark Ages, chaos first when change comes, but as technology was applied over time a Renaissance bloomed.

Today, a similar transition is taking place, the reorganization (chaos) of economies around a world in which our human communications now transcend physicality.   You can see the effects; the general term applied to this time period/process (humans need labels) is called globalization.  We feel the effects of globalization in our real lives as rising living cost, a collapsing dollar, and foreclosures.  This transition will redistribute wealth, the haves will find that the have-nots are catching up; the rise of the emerging markets will continue as they receive more access to cell-phones, micro-loans such as KIVA and Grahmeen Bank, ;education through technology, and sooner than people would have thought they will have access to the global digital marketplace - and their own website.

The site you are reading this on is free for the user, has simple to use features, and gives people a voice and community of their own design on the web. The only thing they'll be missing is a "way to earn into this digital economy"  - and that is coming.  Commerce is the key to winning in the market place; easy to use powerful on-line software that will change the way business is done and products are sold.  Our new Renaissance will come out of the ashes of global economic reorganization, even as nation states attempt to hold back the inevitable devaluation of fiat currencies, peer based barter and private economic systems - which are free for the User - will develop in the transcendence of cyberspace.

There are amazing parallels between the printing press and the Internet; liberation of information, new technologies, and the triggers of New Ages. I shall try to put into perspective what it means to be entering a new age so we may better place our current experience into some kind of meaningful/relevant (relative) context.  The following excerpts from the book the Sovereign Individual are helpful, and we hope make clear to you the common parallels between the past and now; where the printing press brought down the dominance of the Church and triggered the Industrial Age, the Internet and ICT technologies will transcend current economic controls of nation-states and soon trigger a truly global Information Age.

"An entirely new realm of economic activity that is not hostage to physical violence will emerge in cyberspace… you are standing on the threshold of the most sweeping revolution in history….”

THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION