ABSTRACT
Postindustrial society is characterized by the codification of theoretical knowledge, specifically new technological-scientific activities oriented about electronics, telecommunications, optics, polymers, and computers. The major axiomatic principles of postindustrial society are described in this chapter. In a postindustrial universe, society becomes a free choice of free people, rather than a banding together against nature or an involuntary fusion of routinized relations imposed from outside. The most important problem for postindustrial societies is how to develop collections that improve the functionary of suppliers of government services. As a transitional concept, postindustrial might prove pragmatically satisfactory. But as a structural statement that integrates commerce, policy, and knowledge, it clearly is not adequate. Economic writings on postindustrialism are still in search of a theory and those selected variables that make for a qualitative transformation of the system. As a result, postindustrialism as a paradigm turned ideology can easily disguise rather than illuminate.
