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Future shock / Alvin Toffler.
Author
Toffler, Alvin
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Random House, [1970]
Description
xii, 505 pages ; 23 cm
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Social history
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1945-
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Social change
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Civilization, Modern
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1950-
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Regression (Civilization)
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Civilization
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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Bibliography: p. 461-483.
Contents
Introduction
Part one. The death of permanence. The 800th lifetime
The accelerative thrust
The pace of life
Part two. Transience. Things: the throw-away society
Places: the new nomads
People: the modular man
Organization: the coming ad-hocracy
Information: the kinetic image
Part three. Novelty. The scientific trajectory
The experience makers
The fractured family
Part four: diversity. The origins of overchoice
A surfeit of subcults
A diversity of life styles
Part five. The limits of adaptability. Future shock: the physical dimension
Future shock: the psychological dimension
Part six. Strategies for survival. Coping with tomorrow
Education in the future tense
Taming technology
The strategy of social futurism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author.
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ISBN
0553277375 ((paperback))
9780553277371 ((paperback))
Publisher no.
[1971, c1970].
LCCN
67012744
OCLC
87496
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