Operation Phoenix 3: A study of living and working in a technological society

WHY CONSULT THE CRYSTAL BALL WHEN YOU CAN READ THE BOOK? There is, then, a discernible pattern in the way changes take place in the living‐working relationships in society. I have introduced readers to the THRESHOLD model. We started off by thinking in terms of a simple before‐and‐after situation. Further thought caused us to admit of an interim condition of being on the threshold itself or on the point of crossing it — between the two worlds, as it were. Still finding this inadequate to explain all the observable phenomena, we went on to identify a vestibule state which represents a time‐lag in the sense that the technology has moved on across the threshold into tomorrow's world while the socio‐political structure has not.