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Future shock
Describes some of the problems our technology has created for society and suggests some strategies for coping in the future.
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New York
Bantom Book
1970
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one. The death of permanence. The 800th lifetime
- The accelerative thrust
- The pace of life
- Part two. Transience. Things: the throw-away society
- Places: the new nomads
- People: the modular man
- Organization: the coming ad-hocracy
- Information: the kinetic image
- Part three. Novelty. The scientific trajectory
- The experience makers
- The fractured family
- Part four: diversity. The origins of overchoice
- A surfeit of subcults
- A diversity of life styles
- Part five. The limits of adaptability. Future shock: the physical dimension
- Future shock: the psychological dimension
- Part six. Strategies for survival. Coping with tomorrow
- Education in the future tense
- Taming technology
- The strategy of social futurism
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.