If the internet wasn’t proof enough. The 3rd wave is here, now. About Shaeffer from my last post, they utilize 3rd wave custom manufacturing techniques. What I mean by that is that they have a downloadable software package on thier website that customers can use to design front panels to thier own specs and place an order without ever having to export a file and email it or what have you. Everything is done through software on end user’s computer. In itself not that amazing, but it’s the fact that one-off custom manufatured goods can be designed and ordered in this way that Alvin Toffler predicting in his book ‘The Third Wave’ almost 30 years ago.