Future Shock (Hardcover)

from RajivC

If Alvin Toffler had authored this book in 2020, I may have dismissed this as a rant, and there are many people these days who are ranting about things like social media with all its attendant problems. However, he wrote this book in 1970, and many of the things that he describes have come to pa...

from fugitive

Well, let me say that the Bible is dull, stodgy, and mostly wrong, but it's considered a classic. So too with this work, but ... I first read this book when I was in 8th grade, one year after it was published. I originally found it a tad outrageous but quite intriguing. I bought the major premise...

from aegossman

This book is dated in the BEST of ways! One day it would be amazing to show this book to my son, and explain to him some of the cultural things I have gleamed from my parents, about how life was like when Nixon was president... and to read this book from someone in that time, where he is talking ...

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Ignore the year of publication and rest assured — you're sure to learn something of interest from Alvin Toffler's Future Shock. Outside of a few dated terms, much of what Toffler speaks to — the social, economic, political, and technological trends of the past, present and future — are addressed ...

from Borg-mx5

An interesting premise. Technology advances faster than we can adapt to it. Many of the predictions in this book failed to come to fruition. Still an interesting read.