From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpost-industrialˌpost-inˈdustrial adjective TIPErelating to the period in the late 20th century when the older types of industry became less important, and computers became more important the post-industrial information-based society
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post-industrial• This is how I helped produce an article on the new post-industrial economy.• The attempt by residents to develop in their own eyes a post-industrial ethic was not realizable without consequences and contradictions.• In a post-industrial information economy, the differences become more pronounced and more divisive as the length and necessity of schooling increase.• You can not, in a post-industrial nation, make more than fitful sense of an early Victorian doctrine of class-war.• Yes, this is post-industrial noise in the genre of the completely unlistenable Test Department.• Second and more fundamental: is there nowadays any normal average level of fertility to which post-industrial societies are tending?• Clearly, the post-industrial world is changing attitudes as well as places.post-industrial ... society• By and large, the academic community seems content simply to accommodate to the instrumental needs of post-industrial society.• Second and more fundamental: is there nowadays any normal average level of fertility to which post-industrial societies are tending? 