People who in a previous era might have gone to work in a shipyard or factory were now going to work in an office.

If he sometimes seemed like a throwback to a previous era, his record in encouraging new writers and taking a chance with neglected classics spoke for itself.

Which is rather unsettling, because the world is obviously changing much faster than in any previous era.

Brooks concludes that if the previous era was 'economocentric', so the next will be, and should be, 'sociocentric'.