In "The Coming of Post-Industrial Society," he foresaw the global spread of service-based economies as generators of capital and employment, supplanting those dominated by manufacturing or agriculture.
While the rapid spread of services like Groupon, LivingSocial and Amazon Local has allowed millions to try restaurants or leisure activities they otherwise couldn't afford (or wouldn't have known about), it is also compelling some people to spend time doing things they don't necessarily want to do.
That's a major blow against the viral spread of services like YouTube, RockYou and countless emerging others.
The first one (transit coverage) investigates the spread of the service, and it is used to assess the percentage of people in a district that can access the service within a comfortable access distance.
Since it started measuring in 1999, the Federal Communications Commission invariably concluded that the spread of broadband service was progressing just fine.
Then, it was supposed that start up costs would be poorly representative of start costs in another setting, considering that further spread of the service would be a replication, hence less costly than an innovation.
The cause of the fire, which spread to service boxes on University Avenue between West Tremont Avenue and 176th Street, was not immediately known, Mr. Petta said, but there were no reported power failures or injuries.
The numbers are daunting and the spread of social services reveals why, in rural areas, such services are almost non-existent.
This would do a lot to provide a more integrated approach, and support the spread of shared services, but giving the CIO, based in the Cabinet Office, power over other departments would challenge the civil service's way of conducting business.
They may benefit at the moment, but the spread of such services will make it easier for savers to shop around for higher rates.
That will remain one of the most buoyant markets in India, thanks to favourable demographics, changing cultural and consumption patterns, higher purchasing power and the spread of financial services outside the big cities.
