Although it introduced about four decades ago, the term of “future shock” has meets its relevancy in various places and events. Briefly, Toffler’s defines future shock as a personal perception of “too much change in too short a period of time“.
Toffler says that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a fast change from an industrial society to a “super-industrial society“.
Because of this change, people will overwhelmed; the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaving people disconnected and suffering from “shattering stress and disorientation”.
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