Future Shock
Ranked #14 in Customs, Ranked #22 in Futurism — see more rankings.
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... more
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Kevin Kelly [The author] was the one who introduced the term 'future shock' which was that people would actually have like a resistance or a reaction to the future. (Source)
Andy Stern I think Future Shock actually did foretell the future, because it talks about how in essence we're building a new civilisation in front of our eyes. How no group of people have ever been so shocked by the ever-changing realities that have completely altered media, lifestyles, culture and work. In some ways they were the canary that was singing about a future that they saw well before anyone quite appreciated it. Interestingly, people like Newt Gingrich have taken that understanding of fundamental – in some ways radical – change, and adapted it to a new set of ideas that aren't the way that... (Source)
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- #70 in Information Technology
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