The modern business is so dependent on telephone and other communication services that it would be crippled if it had to go without them. Computers, which were virtually unavailable ten to twelve years ago, but now are now slowly, but surely, taking over the business world. As this happens we are all becoming knowledge workers. The project was so successful that it decided to offer the program on a continuing basis. This successful program is the catalyst that will change the entire mixture of work, family and education.
Telecommuting is to the third wave, what the steam engine was to the second wave.
It was during this period that man attempted the first form of industrialization. Even then the worker labored at home. The same number of objections would have been voiced if you had told 18th century farmers that their children and grandchildren would all be working in the cities. This evolution of work won't happen over night. People just aren't ready for it.