ABSTRACT

The exploding rate of change over the past 100 years has brought with it great advances in science, the coining of new words, and the emergence of a new age, one perhaps even more dramatically different from the Industrial Age than that age was from the Middle Ages. Words such as television, computer, and fax express some of the major differences in our new age, a world of information and global communication. Some words refer not simply to aspects of a global change, but to the dynamics of the change itself.