The "third wave" has been first presented in 1980s' by Alvin Toffler . The central premise of his talk was that human history, while it is comp-lex and contradictory, can be seen to fit patterns. The pattern he has been seeing in his career takes the shape of three great advances or waves.
The first wave of transformation began when some prescient person about 10,000 years ago, probably a woman, planted a seed and nurtured its growth. The age of agriculture began, and its significance was that people moved away from nomadic wandering and hunting and began to cluster into villages and develop culture.
The second wave was an expression of machine muscle, the Industrial Re-volution that began in the 18th century and gathered steam after Ame-rica's Civil War. People began to leave the peasant culture of farming to come to work in city factories.
Just as the machine seemed at its most invincible, however, we began to receive intimations of a gathering third wave which has changed the whole world so much. It is what we variously call the information or the knowledge age, and while it is powerfully driven by information tech-nology, it has co-drivers as well, among them social demands worldwide for greater freedom and individuation.

1.The most striking feature of Toffler's third wave society is its individualism.
2.Whatever the personality of the future will be like, we do need an in-telligent and responsible and forward-thinking leadership to get us through the third wave.

Alvin Toffler "The Third Wave" & "Future Shock"