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1-The 5th wave followed the post-Second World War industrial
changes and innovations such as plastics, electronics, and the jet
engine (Comtois, Rodrigue, & Slack, 2013). The 5th Wave moves
beyond the industrial changes and focuses on information systems,
communications, and logistics (Comtois, Rodrigue, & Slack, 2013).
This is evident by the improvements and expansions seen in cellular
communications (Butterworth, 2010). Can anyone even remember
using 3G data services anymore? We quickly moved from just
making phone calls to being able to search the internet from a smart
phone utilizing 4G data services (Butterworth, 2010). The changes are
coming quickly, with new services and new devices hitting the market
faster than consumers can purchase. Other examples of technology
innovation in the 5th wave include internet, streaming television,
GPS, social networking, and mobile connectivity (Butterworth, 2010).
Transportation utilizes experimentation, introduction, adoption,
diffusion, and obsolescence when developing technology (Comtois,
Rodrigue, & Slack, 2013). In the world of transportation, innovation
in the 5th wave includes GPS tracking, RFIDs, logistics software.
There are some that believe we are soon to enter the 6th wave, if we
haven't already started a slow transition, which will focus more on
resource efficiency (Norgrady, 2010). There are companies, such as
the Hershey Company, that have pushed toward less waste or zero-
waste production facilities. Companies that have adopted policies to
utilize only sustainable products and resources. That could be
considered a move into the 6th wave. As resources become scarcer
and the concern for the environment increases, the movement towards