"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."
― Alvin Toffler
Topic(s):
Change
― Alvin Toffler
More From Alvin Toffler
- "Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."
- "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
- "Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."
More In Change
- "One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama’s impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment."― Eric Alterman
- "Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected."― Ludwig Quidde
- "Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you’re on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else."― Jeff Bridges