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Bookmark or Share- Encore: 'Future Shock' 40 Years Later - NPRWriter and futurist Alvin Toffler has died. He was 87. Toffler wrote the book "Future Shock." It came out in 1970, and it envisioned a world in which rapid change made people go insane. The idea...
- Future Shock at 40: What the Tofflers Got Right (and Wrong)In the opening minutes of Future Shock, a 1972 documentary based on the book of the same name, a bearded, cigar-puffing, world-weary Orson Welles staggers down an airport’s...
- Future Shock | Random House Publishing GroupFuture shock is a time phenomenon, a product of the greatly accelerated rate of change in society. It arises from the superimposition of a new culture on an old one. It is culture shock in one’s own society. But its impact is far worse.
- Future Shock: Toffler, Alvin: 9780553277371: Amazon.com: BooksNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow.
- Re-Reading Future Shock 50 Years On - ResilienceFuture Shock has become a strange futures text that turns out to be a used future, blinding us to the actual material futures unfolding in front of us, but also an empty future, used to make claims on the future that profit particular groups and interests in the present.
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