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future shock

noun

  1. physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
  2. any overload of a person's or an organization's capacity for adaptation or decision-making.


future shock

  1. A sense of insecurity and disorientation often felt by people whose societies are undergoing rapid change.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of future shock1

On the model of culture shock; popularized by a book of the same title (1970) by Alvin Toffler (1928–2016), U.S. journalist
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And the man who once released an album called Future Shock, has some simple advice for us all.

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Deep in a bunker, a family keeps on singing in the year’s most nightmarish piece of future shock.

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Future shock has left many members of American and global society feeling unmoored and increasingly confused and uncertain about their role in the present.

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Although they did not use the term burnout in their groundbreaking 1970 book “Future Shock,” Alvin and Heidi Toffler predicted that the breathtaking pace of our technological revolution would bring unsettling change, challenge and increased crime.

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To an unsophisticated and overwhelmed public, which is caught up in the spectacle of news as entertainment, struggling with economic precarity, future shock, and an pathological attention economy and empty consumerism, these discussions of politics all too often just seems like partisan bluster and fighting where both sides are equally bad and responsible for the country’s problems.

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