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And now alvin toffler s immensely readable yet disquieting study may serve tohe same purpose for our own increasingly volatile world. The name is inspired by alvin tofflers prophetic book future shock published in 1970, in which he describes the profound impact of the acceleration of technological, social and structural change in contemporary life. He looked at media and technology of 1970, thought about where it was going and painted a. Future shock1 is a book of social analy sis and criticism. A social thinker, visiting professor at cornell university and futurist, toffler burst into the worlds consciousness in 1970 with this predictive tome. Future shock is a book written by the futurist alvin toffler in 1970.
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