Share your interactive ePaper on all platforms and on your website with our embed function. Alvin Toffler - Future Shock. Snow: "Remarkable Buckminster Fuller: "Cogent Betty Friedan: "Brilliant and true Must reading. The two cultures have met and are being merged. Marca Registrada. This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change.
The future of friendship and family life is probed. The acceleration of change in our time is, itself, an elemental force. It is the disease of change.
Yet we know little about its sources. It also calls attention to an important, though often overlooked, distinction. The book is intended to do more than present a theory, however. Previously, men studied the past to shed light on the present. Today the whole world is a fast-breaking story. Writers have a harder and harder time keeping up with reality. Another reservation has to do with the verb "will. Similarly, all dates applied to future events need to be taken with a grain of judgment.
Even error has its uses. Yet the great explorers could never have discovered the New World without them. This book is about change and how we adapt to it. It is about our capacity to adapt. This storm, far from abating, now appears to be gathering force. We have pop Is there a way to understand it, to shape its development? For the acceleration of change does not merely buffet industries or nations.
The parallel term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that immersion in a strange culture has on the unprepared visitor. Peace Corps volunteers suffer from it in Borneo or Brazil.
