Future Shock
Alvin Toffler
Published: 1970
Pages: 561
Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock 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.
Future Shock vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrow's family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, life-styles, and human relationships--all of them temporary.
Future Shock illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clich s about today.
Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.
Praise for Future Shock
"Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated."--The Wall Street Journal
"A spectacular outcrop of a formidable, organized intellectual effort."--Manchester Guardian
"Revealing, exciting, encouraging, brilliant."--The Christian Science Monitor
"Immensely readable."--Newsweek
"Alvin Toffler has sent something of a shock-wave through Western society."--London Daily Express
"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 Times of India