Its more recent rebirth as a center of art and tourism prefigured the transformation now taking place in cities throughout the post-industrial world.

The consumer-centric "long boom" of the 1990s seems utterly distant from the dry post-industrial world Bell describes, full of references to Weber, Rousseau, Locke, and Lenin.

Today, in a faint echo of an illustrious past, the latest in a line of small manufacturing companies and machine shops uses the plant to provide its goods to a post-industrial world.

As an early indicator of what the post-industrial world might look like (Woodstock 1999?)

The more I look at this, the more I believe that in a post-industrial, digital world, the idea of regulated monopolies is bad.

Clearly, the post-industrial world is changing attitudes as well as places.

In the post-industrial world, where life and fashion move far more quickly than when French style ideals evolved, there may be diminished value in fabrics that can withstand a decade of wear.

But, viewed through a historical lens, their futures say far more about the cold war politics of 1950s America than the post-industrial world of 2011.

Founded to give political expression to a working class based on industry, what is their role in a post-industrial world?

These skills - perspective taking, reflection and revision, problem finding and close analysis, among others - are recognized as essentials for young people in a post-industrial world.