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 page 337. It says,

     "Is it now possible, moreover, as it was not in the past, for a society to attain a high material standard of living without focusing all its energies on production for exchange? Given the wider range of options brought by the Third Wave, cannot a people reduce infant mortality and improve life span, literacy, nutrition, and the general quality of life without surrenduring its religion or values and necessarily embracing the Western materialism that accompanies the spread of Second Wave civilization?
     Tomorrow's "development" strategies will come not from Washington or Moscow or Paris or Geneva but from Africa, Asia and Latin America. They will be indigenous, matched to actual local needs. They will not overemphasize economics at the expense of ecology, culture, religion, or family structure and the psychological dimensions or existance. They will not imitate any outside model. First Wave, Second Wave or, for that matter, Third.
     But the ascent of the Third Wave places all our efforts in a new perspective. For it provides the world's poorest nations, as well as the richest, with wholly new opportunities."