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Original Title:	Future Shock
ISBN:	0553101501 (ISBN13: 9780553101508)
Edition Language:	English

Future Shock

Alvin Toffler

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 430 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 4136 Users | 287 Reviews

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Title	:	Future Shock
Author	:	Alvin Toffler
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 430 pages
Published	:	1971 by Bantam Books (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Sociology. Science. Philosophy. History. Psychology. Technology

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This book is still in print!

To me, that's pretty amazing. It seems that many readers would rather look at someone's views about our "now" or "near now, plus or minus", written four decades ago, than opening their eyes and looking for themselves.

If I still had the book, I might be tempted to see what these old views of our "now" could have been that seem so ... prescient?

But I don't have it, got rid of it to make shelf space.

I admit that I only think I ever read the book. Someone below left an outraged comment about that - as if, had I rated the book a 5 instead of a 3, and written an effusive review, it would have made earth-shaking difference. Not my ratings/reviews! Oh well.

At any rate, the cover of my edition said something about "run-away best seller". And it was, iirc.

It's funny how books about the future are always so popular, even though everyone knows, if they think about it, that no one, including authors of said books, has a crystal ball. And without that little appliance it's pretty hard to see into the future with much accuracy.

I suspect that if one could comb through all the "future-looking" books written in past decades, it might be found that the very few which exhibited pretty remarkable prescience would have been books that, when they were published, created either hardly a ripple, or else a backlash (see below **).

Mostly we like visions of the future which are quite like our own wishes for both our own, and society's, future. But human wishes have a rather poor record of being fulfilled.

I took a quick look through the book before giving it away (to BetterWorldBooks). Toffler talks about such things as people traveling more (sure he was right about that), economists being the same as always (another bingo), technology having either unforeseen consequences (right again) or very specific predicted consequences (not so good, those predictions) - lots of things like that.

Missing are things about the triumph of Mega-capitalism, the existential threat of global warming, a world whose ecosystems are on the point of collapse, a population which is overwhelming the capacity of the earth to support it - little things like that.

** Actually a lot of those were pretty much nailed by The Limits to Growth. But while that book did create a small stir when it was published just a couple years after Toffler's, it was mostly a lot of scoffing.

So goes the future prediction industry. Not one to invest in, as far as I'm concerned. After all, we seem to have enough trouble deciding what happened in the past.

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Ratings: 3.8 From 4136 Users | 287 Reviews

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One amazing ride from history ( civilization) to future!!! To get a broad and deeper view about family, relationshipd, education, technology, politics, psychology, biology, inventions, life pattern..etc..etc...one must read this book and ofcourse to get a glimpse of future . One hell of a read about "CHANGE" .

This book is still in print!To me, that's pretty amazing. It seems that many readers would rather look at someone's views about our "now" or "near now, plus or minus", written four decades ago, than opening their eyes and looking for themselves.If I still had the book, I might be tempted to see what these old views of our "now" could have been that seem so ... prescient? But I don't have it, got rid of it to make shelf space. I admit that I only think I ever read the book. Someone below left an

The book is divided into 6 parts. Part 1 introduces the basic program (death of permanence), Parts 2-4 explain the 3 factors that induce future shock: transience, novelty and diversity and Parts 5-6 bring in future shock and possibly coping strategies. For me, it was initially a very slow read, but for some reason it eventually took off into Part 3, and I found myself sold.Toffler worries that we are hurtling towards mass feelings of "future shock" (akin to culture shock that travellers get when

This was the beginning of Toffler's trilogy that continued with The Third Wave and PowerShift. In each of them, he looked at the world and said, "This is where we're going, and here's why." He and his wife, Heidi, who co-wrote these, seemed to be able to see about a decade ahead of the rest of us.His analysis and predictions in the first two books--published in the 70's and 80's--seem mundane now. His third title in this group--published in 1990--still has some ideas that haven't manifested yet.

The synopsis of this book is quite enticing to the curious reader who hopes to be enlightened by some radical thoughts, perhaps about mankind's future and how he can be better prepared for it. And hence, I picked this book. But then, all I got to read was 400 odd pages of rant about how bad it is for mankind to be subject to the cruelty of changing times. The atrocities inflicted by industrialization, technological revolution, shortening time and spaces, greater mobility of humans enabled by

The author is a little long-winded, but this book is unintentionally hilarious at times. It was social commentary written in 1970 about how quickly society and people's lives are changing. He makes some interesting points about how temporary our relationships are becoming and how technology is facing us with an overwhelming amount of options. But my favorite parts are when he starts making predictions about the future. By the year 2000, half the population will live in underwater communities!