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Future Shock
"Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated." --The Wall Street Journal
Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time.
In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations--even our patterns of friendship and love.
But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships--all of them temporary.
Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.
Book Details
- Publisher: Bantam
- Publish Date: Jun 1st, 1984
- Pages: 576
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 6.80in - 4.20in - 1.00in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9780553277371
- Categories: • Customs & Traditions• Future Studies• Sociology - General
About the Author
More books by Alvin Toffler
What people are saying
"He was trying to get us ready and he kicked off the field [of futurism] and all of us who do futures work today, we owe him a debt of gratitude for recognizing that how we feel about change is a huge driver of society’s health and our own psychological wellbeing."
Michael Nielsen is a writer, scientist, and programmer.
Fun to think of Alvin and Heidi Toffler's "Future Shock" as what happens when human beings are asked to behave out-of-distribution
Searching for the demise of self. I love poetry, music, art, non-dualism, the works of Brunton and philosophy. Trying to get a PhD. Author of the Wandering Lamb
“ The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn .” – Alvin Toffler (future shock) Really struggling now with finding a blend. These books and words keep me company #hobopoet #phdofwhat I will not give up. https://t.co/JCVL9c6TLi
Praise for this book
"In the risky business of social and cultural criticism, there appears an occasional book that manages . . . to shape our perceptions of its times. Alvin Toffler's immensely readable yet disquieting study may service the same purpose for our own increasingly volatile world."--Newsweek
"Alvin Toffler has sent something of a shock-wave through Western society."--Daily Express (London)
"To the elite . . . who often get committed to age-old institutions or material goals alone, let Toffler's Future Shock be a lesson and a warning."--The Time of India
What people are saying
"He was trying to get us ready and he kicked off the field [of futurism] and all of us who do futures work today, we owe him a debt of gratitude for recognizing that how we feel about change is a huge driver of society’s health and our own psychological wellbeing."