Content partner: Humanscale The tide is turning

ipping points are fascinating things. More often than not they can’t be identified until some time after they happen, maybe even years or decades later. The move from a hunter/gatherer system to an agricultural one, and from agriculture to an industrial society, the various industrial revolutions (including the one said to have started around 1969 fuelled by the rise of nuclear power, microelectronics, biotechnology and the exploration of space), and the correlation between the introduction of the contraceptive pill and the sexual revolution are all examples of this. As was the televisation of the Vietnam War and the public’s response to that,