Since the techno-sphere, info-sphere and socio-sphere are changing, it is obvious that the psycho-sphere will also suffer alterations, especially in mentality. This time, individuals will emphasize their need for belonging to a community, the need of a meaning of life and the necessity for self actualization and self development. The fact that children mature and take responsibility faster, while also becoming more versatile and adaptable, means that education will also be modified to cater to these modern needs. This way, there will be a balance between physical and intellectual work, between the abstract and the concrete, between objectivity and subjectivity, between production and prosumption, all of them helped by the advent of communication.
In terms of politics, the types of leaders usually proposed by precedent waves no longer correspond to reality, and there is a need for a strong leader, but not in personality, but in control over the many bureaucratic institutions. The fact that the decisional processes and obsolete has led to what experts call institutional failure, the main guilty part for the inefficiency of political rule.
There are, however, some means to improve the situation. They are, in Alvin Toffler’s view:
- An increase in the power of the minorities (which will create large, constructive alliances), justified by the impulse towards diversity and demassification;
- Semi-direct democracy: the active involvement of citizens in the decision making process, a reduction on the power of representatives;
- Splitting the decision: transnational and sub-national institutions should be allowed to take more decisions.
In the end, the is a clash between the supporters of the Second and Third Waves, but the conflicts are mostly generated by the Second Wave civilization that refuses to die out, rather than the incipient Third Wave.