In a Post-Modern world, the fundamental social fact is the revolutionary growth of those who create and pass on information; or put another way, the sudden emergence of what looks like a new class, **the replacement of the proletariat by the cognitariat**. But of course these new workers are not working class, nor exactly middle class, but rather **para-class**. Statistically most of them are clerks, secretaries, insurance people, stockbrokers, teachers, managers, governmental bureaucrats, lawyers, writers, bankers, technicians, programmers and accountants. Their salaries differ as much as their way of life and status, and supposing one could subdivide this large group into layers, finely graded from _cognicrats_ at the top to _cogniproles_ at the bottom, distinctions would be largely specious because the internal divisions are always changing relative to each other, as there is a constant change of jobs and their specifications.
