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Future Shock

by Alvin Toffler

Change and the strain of adaptation

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    New York Times bestseller

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    Praised by The Wall Street Journal

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Change and the strain of adaptation

Alvin Toffler examines how accelerating change reaches beyond technology into products, communities, organizations, and personal relationships. The book frames “future shock” as the experience of people and groups overwhelmed by the pace of transformation, linking social change with the challenges of adapting to it. Its subject is not only a forecast of what lies ahead: the description also presents the book as a way to consider pressures already shaping contemporary life. This makes the work a broad study of how rapid shifts affect everyday experience and social structures.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in social change and adaptation.
  • Those exploring the effects of technological change on communities and daily life.
  • Readers seeking a broad sociological perspective on modern transformation.

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Accelerating changeAdaptationTechnology and societyCommunities and relationships

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Book overview

NEW 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.

"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 clich
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