postindustrial countries. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods. From Dictionary.com.
But today, the "postindustrial" mode of imperialism is more about recycling wealth to produce capital gains, mainly by globalizing and privatizing the Bubble Economy. From Wordnik.com. [Darwiniana] Reference
Our societies are both super-industrial and postindustrial. From Wordnik.com. [Canada 1986: New Realities] Reference
It is fashionable to call America postmodern and postindustrial. From Wordnik.com. [Searching for Intimacy With the Gods of Fame] Reference
New York isn't well suited to compete in the postindustrial world. From Wordnik.com. [A Public Poet In Autumn] Reference
"If they changed it to postindustrial city, it might be meaningful," said Karla. From Wordnik.com. [Microserfs]
I am well aware that airlines have become pariahs of the postindustrial economy. From Wordnik.com. [Come Fly With Me] Reference
What they stand for instead is bipartisan civility and postindustrial contentment. From Wordnik.com. [Conservatives and the Market for Alienation] Reference
Many are lawyers from a baby-boom generation of postindustrial "knowledge workers.". From Wordnik.com. [THE INNER CIRCLE] Reference
In this sense, it is a useful window on India's industrial and postindustrial economy. From Wordnik.com. [India Rising] Reference
It encouraged low-density sprawl, which is ill-fitted to a creative, postindustrial economy. From Wordnik.com. [How the Crash Will Reshape America] Reference
In the postindustrial age, a place on Europe's outer rim is no bar to prosperity; look at Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [Blue, White, Red] Reference
One could make a strong argument that postindustrial prosperity has helped craftsmanship to thrive. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Doing Something Well] Reference
Poetry that appears as prose and little fables about our lives in postindustrial capitalist America. From Wordnik.com. [The Bebop of Baraka: A Review of Amiri Baraka's Tales of the Out & Gone] Reference
Our postindustrial world would be the Information Age, our national product "information management.". From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
Today's excessive sugar consumption is mostly an artifact of the postindustrial agricultural revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Joseph Mercola: If You Want to Age Gracefully, Don't Eat This] Reference
Cultural festivals are emerging as the new must-have for postindustrial cities keen to recast their images. From Wordnik.com. [On The Circuit] Reference
But that postindustrial compact, born of a bygone American age of affluence, is being rewritten in Detroit. From Wordnik.com. [Who Should Pay For Health Benefits?] Reference
Sickness, old age, and death entail hardships in any society: poverty was in no sense a postindustrial phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [WELFARE STATE] Reference
It's fun to pick on the optimism of the modernists, they overreached and almost birthed a postindustrial nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Ever Wondered What Happened To Rem Koolhaas?] Reference
Then there were those who explained that the youth of the day were simply in transition to a postindustrial society. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
Margo would have called it an interesting mix of pre-and postindustrial style, with not much to offer beyond curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Something Unpredictable] Reference
But the reality of postindustrial society is that power lies with the people who tell the rest of the world what to think. From Wordnik.com. [Seattle Reigns] Reference
If there is such a thing as the quintessential postindustrial organization, then perhaps its picture is painted in this book. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegant Solution] Reference
Let me refer first to one of the much-maligned concepts often referred to when the future is discussed-the postindustrial society. From Wordnik.com. [Canada 1986: New Realities] Reference
To survive in the highly technical and postindustrial age that you and I live in today, we have to update our personal philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Reposition Yourself] Reference
Cropped at the top and bottom, it gives a slightly sickening sense of how unbalanced and rootless a postindustrial existence can be. From Wordnik.com. [Back From the Wilderness] Reference
As their competitors all over the world struggle with being industrial organizations in a postindustrial world, Toyota moves forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegant Solution] Reference
Either they really are at the mercy of our omnipresent postindustrial society or they have plans in store that we have yet to discern. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
A period of railway and city building, typical of the nineteenth century, coincides with a flowering of postindustrial electronic technology. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping up with the New China] Reference
In a post-agricultural, postindustrial, innovation-dependent economy, the roads to prosperity inevitably pass through a few essential cities. From Wordnik.com. [Clogged Arteries] Reference
The postindustrial society emphasizes not the production of goods, but of services, which depend on intelligent designers and users of technology. From Wordnik.com. [postindustrial society] Reference
The evidence of this miracle is all around us, in the affluence of postindustrial societies and the rise in living standards across social classes. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Meltdown] Reference
If you should be so mired in the pre-postindustrial past as to take a train somewhere, it will carry you for miles between the ghosts of factories. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
It has permitted, in the name of progress, the dismantling of the manufacturing sector, leaving huge pockets of postindustrial despair and poverty behind. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: Pessimism Porn] Reference
So are the freegans, and it's hard to argue with their outrage, or their broader critique of the excesses and wastefulness of postindustrial consumerist culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Noble Scavenger on The Living-Room Couch] Reference
Even if Clinton is right, the rapidly churning postindustrial economy will make workers feel more insecure, an anxiety government can affect only at the margins. From Wordnik.com. [Standing Tall] Reference
Gilfoyle, says Wille, "has wise things to say about Millennium Park's lessons for the economic health of Chicago and other postindustrial cities with global aspirations.". From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog: Review: Gilfoyle, Millennium Park] Reference
But today, the “postindustrial” mode of imperialism is more about recycling wealth to produce capital gains, mainly by globalizing and privatizing the Bubble Economy. From Wordnik.com. [The New Beginning] Reference
Until recently, there has been only limited evidence of the connection between education and in appreciation of the arts and success in the postindustrial age of information. From Wordnik.com. [John M. Eger: More Funding for the Arts, Please] Reference
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