The second half of the twentieth century is marked by massive
changes affecting all aspects of our lives. We are experiencing
the major societal TRANSFORMATION from the industrial machine
age to the post-industrial information/knowledge age. These
changes and transformations are reshaping our thinking and
recasting the way we view ourselves, the systems of which we are
part, the environments in which we live, and THE WAY WE VIEW the
world. A world-view (window to the world) is like a lens through
which we perceive the landscape of life that becomes our
reality. Those who look through the lens of the previous era see
their own reality very differently from those who use the lens
that the new era has crafted. This "view of the world" (world-
view) has many dimensions: the socio-cultural, the socio-
technical, the socio-economic, the organizational, and the
scientific just to name a few. These dimensions interact and
mutually influence eachother expressing that interaction as an
emergence of a NEW world view very