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 It's on page 295 at the top. It says,

     "Today there is a fast-spreading recognition around the world that progress can no longer be measured in terms of technology or material standard of living alone - that a society that is morally, aesthetically, politically, or environmentally degraded is not an advanced society, no matter how rich or technically sophisticated it may be. In short, we are moving toward a far more comprehensive notion of progress - progress no longer automatically achieved and no longer defined by material criteria alone.
     We are also less inclined to think of societies as moving along one track, each society traveling automatically from one cultural way-station to the next, one more "advanced" then another. There may be many branch lines, as it were, rather than a single roadbed, and societies may be able to achieve comprehensive development in a variety of ways.
     We are beginning to think of progress as the flowering of a tree with many branches extending into the future, the very variety and richness of human cultures serving as a measure. In this light, today's shift toward a more diverse, de-massified world may itself come to be seen as an important forward leap - analogous to the tendency toward differentiation and complexity so common in biological evolution.
     Whatever happens next, it is unlikely that the culture will ever again return to the naive, unilinear, Pollyannaish progressivism that characterized and inspired the Second Wave era.
     The past decades, therefore, have witnessed a forced reconceptualization of nature, evolution, and progress alike. These concepts, however, were in turn based on still more elemental ideas - our assumptions about time, space, matter, and causality. And the Third Waave is dissolving even these assumptions - the intellectual glue that held Second Wave civilization together."