Future ShockExamines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
Chapter One THE 800TH LIFETIME | 11 |
Chapter Two THE ACCELERATIVE THRUST | 20 |
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acceleration accelerative thrust adaptive advance alter Alvin Toffler American become behavior Cedric Price Chindit choice cities cope corporations create culture decisions diversity economic effect endocrine systems engineers environment Eric Gunderson example experience experiential fact faster forces future shock goals hippie human idea images impact increasing increasingly individual industrial less lives machines man-thing man's marriage mass mass media ment mental merely millions mobility move nomic novelty organization organizational overchoice pace past pattern percent political possible problems psychological quoted rapid rate of change reality relationships response Reyner Banham says scientists sense sensory sensory deprivation shift social society speed structure style subcults sumer super-industrial techno technocratic temporary things Timothy Leary tion tional tomorrow transience turn turnover United urban York young