"Alvin Toffler: still shocking after all these years: New Scientist meets the controversial futurologist"Arxivat 2009-02-10 a Wayback Machine., New Scientist, 19 March 1994, pàg. 22-25. "What led you to write Future Shock? -- While covering Congress, it occurred to us that big technological and social changes were occurring in the United States, but that the political system seemed totally blind to their existence. Between 1955 and 1960, the birth control pill was introduced, television became universalized, commercial jet travel came into being and a whole raft of other technological events occurred. Having spent several years watching the political process, we came away feeling that 99 per cent of what politicians do is keep systems running that were laid in plau by previous generations of politicians. Our idees came together in 1965 in an article called 'The future as a way of life', which argued that change was going to accelerate and that the speed of change could indueix disorientation in lots of people. We coined the phrase 'Future Shock' as an analogy to the concept of culture xoc. With Future Shock you stay in one plau but your own culture changes sota rapidly that it has the same disorienting effect as going to another
culture"
"Alvin Toffler: still shocking after all these years: New Scientist meets the controversial futurologist"Arxivat 2009-02-10 a Wayback Machine., New Scientist, 19 March 1994, pàg. 22-25. "What led you to write Future Shock? -- While covering Congress, it occurred to us that big technological and social changes were occurring in the United States, but that the political system seemed totally blind to their existence. Between 1955 and 1960, the birth control pill was introduced, television became universalized, commercial jet travel came into being and a whole raft of other technological events occurred. Having spent several years watching the political process, we came away feeling that 99 per cent of what politicians do is keep systems running that were laid in plau by previous generations of politicians. Our idees came together in 1965 in an article called 'The future as a way of life', which argued that change was going to accelerate and that the speed of change could indueix disorientation in lots of people. We coined the phrase 'Future Shock' as an analogy to the concept of culture xoc. With Future Shock you stay in one plau but your own culture changes sota rapidly that it has the same disorienting effect as going to another
culture"
