Wiktionary
a. 1 Describing the economy of a nation in which manufacturing industry becomes less important and the service and information industries become more important. 2 (context music English) Of or relating to a genre of music derived from industrial music but with electronic and rock music influences.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research; "postindustrial countries"
Usage examples of "postindustrial".
This produces a macroclimatic change that we anticipate will break the cycle of postindustrial desertification and eventually allow us to reseed the reconstructed genomes stored in the EarthWatch databases.
The postindustrial age required even more specialization, a larger base of workers and consumers.
They are poor, with postindustrial technology that excels only in one area, namely the design and construction of subspace satellites, used mostly as telescopes to observe signals from very distant galaxies, with a resolution far beyond that of current Federation technology.
Committee of 300 saw it as a dangerous threat to its postindustrial zero-growth U.
Behind massive plate safety glass, several thousand square feet of room stood in the pallid postindustrial shimmer of night shift.
The pistol was black and ugly in the way that only mass-tooled artifacts of the postindustrial century could be ugly, but it worked.
His conversation, which is what he must mainly be judged by, since he has yet to exercise much visible power, is an improbable mixture of introspective genius and postindustrial babble.
But in a postindustrial, postinformation society, you very rarely get both.
But then, just as the Brits were the first industrial society, so they became, arguably, our first postindustrial culture.
The difference between the old Parisian and the new New York dinosaurs is the difference between an industrial dinosaur, big and dumb and looming, and the postindustrial dinosaur, swift and smart and a scavenger.
I wonder what they might be willing to exchange for a general theory of postindustrial political economy?
Something had broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
Design schemata for just about anything a mid-twenty-first-century postindustrial civilization could conceive of, freeze-dried copies of the Library of Congress, all sorts of things.
In this sense many call the postindustrial economy an informational economy.
Both models involve the increase of employment in postindustrial services, but they emphasize different kinds of services and different relations between services and manufacturing.