A Fourth Wave Surpassing the Third

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Reading over the Toffler's 1994 book on the 3rd wave, which they posited as an information era wave it is interesting to see how the Internet has in a sense surpassed their expectations. Newt Gingrich wrote an intro to the book, just before becoming speaker of the House (Rep. Hastert should quit his post before his district does a Tom Foley on him and Nancy Pelosi demotes him to a minority status). Mr. Gingrich's enthusiasm for the information age also seems to match the socialist Toffler's somewhat panicky ideas about what all the information means.

The Toffler's and Mr. Gingrich neither seemed to regard corporatism and real politics as problems for the United States, just the information 'revolution' itself required vast alterity to government, and AL Gore was said to have stuck his toe in the third wave waters already.
Perhaps instead of being star struck by all the data available, and how it change's society, a better approach would have been to find a way to keep meaningful social values from American and Biblical history alive within the general assault upon western liberalism.

With so much Internet data available individuals are freer to communicate globally, and certainly corporations can fast shuffle their financial cards around a bit faster than local constituencies can adapt to the economic meanings of the changes. If globalists can produce in the cheapest available nations and ditch anyone taxing more than 13% even getting compliance on anti-pollution laws from corporations may be more difficult to the detriment of the planetary eco-health.

Just because the internet exists it doesn't mean that citizens will read more books on political philosophy, watch less wrestling, pornography or home improvement, and develop better political ideas. In fact homosexual and special pervert interest groups may find organization easier, while cable satellite TV can offer more salacious programming like 'perverted fun 2'. The Toffler's desire for a third wave of government reform to accompany information (following agriculture and the industrial revolution) is already being surpassed by a bigger yet smaller wave of nano-technology.

The philosophy of the founders is a part of a perennial philosophy that like Solomon's observation that there isn't anything new under the sun reflects the basic questions of human existence. Human beings have basic needs including political liberty. The challenges are to find ways to defend the government from continual encroachments of corruption such as the broadcast media presents as a primary anti-democratic forced levering social and political equality (citizens should use the wavelengths for one-way internet downloads) and to keep the people free from corrupt global and local organizations of repression and exploitation.
Religion for instance was a revolution for-itself in providing transcendent, non-tribal social groupings. It is far easier to have a non-authoritarian social organization in a religious form than it is a government in more basic societies such as occurred in the Middle East and Islam. In pre-internet societies without a territorial evolution of democracy authoritarian governments are the simplest to expand over many peoples, while religion may be a more egalitarian force.

Christianity is the ultimate egalitarian social organization humanity is likely to have-with individualism yet a unity through Jesus Christ, while Muhammedism was a half-effort militarily and religiously syncretistic offering a double barreled imperial rule in the Caliphates and Clerics. The imams or group leaders were far less oppressive than Ottoman herders of people.
The United States should find a way to renormalize politicians corrupted by globalism to pursuit of an American development in environmentalism and technology policy with secure borders in a high-density information era.