Future Shock

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Future Shock
By ALVIN TOFFLER
"In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people will face an abrupt collision with the future." These words open an extraordinary book that will make it impossible for its readers ever again to think about themselves in traditional terms.
Yet Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to individuals and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Exploring the hidden impacts of change, Mr. Toffler shows how it affects the products we buy, the communities we live in, the organizations we create, the mass media we exploit, and even our patterns of friendship and love. He describes in vivid detail the super-industrial economy of tomorrow, the future forms of family life, and the break-up of our society into more and more temporary and competing subcultures. He shows how this dramatically influences our life styles, our ability to make rational decisions,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Future Shock
By ALVIN TOFFLER
"In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people will face an abrupt collision with the future." These words open an extraordinary book that will make it impossible for its readers ever again to think about themselves in traditional terms.
Yet Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to individuals and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Exploring the hidden impacts of change, Mr. Toffler shows how it affects the products we buy, the communities we live in, the organizations we create, the mass media we exploit, and even our patterns of friendship and love. He describes in vivid detail the super-industrial economy of tomorrow, the future forms of family life, and the break-up of our society into more and more temporary and competing subcultures. He shows how this dramatically influences our life styles, our ability to make rational decisions, and even our health.
In the process, Future Shock explodes countless clichés about tomorrow: the cliché that bureaucracy will imprison us in the nightmare of 1984; the cliché that standardization will rob us of choice and reduce us to robots; the cliché that man is infinitely adaptable; and the most dangerous cliché of all—that today's education prepares young people for the future.
Previously, social thinkers have drawn upon the past to illuminate the present. But in this
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