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Title:

Future Shock
 

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Genres:

Criticism & Commentary
Hi-Tech
Historical

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1970-00-00 Bantam  

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Future Shock is a book written by the sociologist and futurologist Alvin Toffler in 1970. It grew out of an article "The Future as a Way of Life" in Horizon magazine, Summer 1965 issue. The book has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely translated.

Future shock is also a term for a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, introduced by Toffler in his book of the same name. Toffler's shortest definition of future shock is a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time".

A documentary film based on the book was released in 1972 with Orson Welles as on-screen narrator.