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... however, they reveal shocking ignorance about the character of super-industrialism. Focused on what society was, they are blind to what it is fast becoming. For the society of the future will offer ... what we now believe about democracy and the future of human choice. Today in the techno-societies there is an almost ironclad consensus about the future of freedom. Maximum individual cho...

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... culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with the much more serious malady, future shock. Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. ... 16. FUTURE SHOCK: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION 343 The Overstimulated Individual 344 Bombardment of the Senses 348 Information Overload 350 Decision Stress 355 Victims of Future Shock...

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... our environment. Chapter 16 FUTURE SHOCK: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION If future shock were a matter of physical illness alone, it might be easier to prevent and to treat. But future shock attacks the ... run the high risk of throwing them into that peculiar state that I have called future shock. We may define future shock as the distress, both physical and psychological, t...

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... without being permanently attached to any particular city " Between March 1 967 and March 1 968 —in a single year— 36, 600,000 Americans (not counting children less than one year old) changed their ... Mall, maintained in 1 966 the same share of the market that it held in 19 56. Camels plunged from 18 to 9 percent of the market; Lucky Strike declined even more sharply, from 14 to 6 pe...

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... super-industrialism, among the people of the future, movement is a way of life, a liberation from the constrictions of the past, a step into the still more affluent future. THE MOURNFUL MOVERS Dramatically ... years. This compared with 4 .6 years only three years earlier, a decline in duration of nearly 9 percent. "Under conditions prevailing at the beginning of the 1 960 's,&qu...

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... years for which full data on the subject is available, 1953-19 56, and compare this with a similar period one decade later, 1 963 -1 966 , we find that the average best seller in the earlier period ... for example, didn't last a single year. They entered the teen-age vocabulary in about 1 966 ; by 1 967 they were out. You cannot use a time criterion for slang any more. One fact contribut...

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... offers: father age 39, mother, 36, grandmother, 67 . Uncle and aunt, age 30, live in, hold part-time local employment. Four- child-unit has opening for one, age 6 8. Regulated diet exceeds government ... flux-filled environment. As the super-industrial revolution unfolds, this " ;shock absorber" will come in for some shocks of its own. Social critics have a field day speculating...

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... to induce Chapter 16 FUTURE SHOCK: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION If future shock were a matter of physical illness alone, it might be easier to prevent and to treat. But future shock attacks the ... culture shock victim. For these young people, and millions of others—the confused, the violent, and the apathetic—already evince the symptoms of future shock. They are its earliest...

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... New Society, April 14, 1 966 . 55 Auchincloss is quoted from The New York Times, March 17, 1 966 . 56 Buckminster Fuller's remark is from [1 46] , Document 3, pp. 61 -62 . 58 Data on portable classrooms ... meaning of future shock. For just as individual future shock results from an inability to keep pace with the rate of change, governments, too, suffer from a kind of collecti...

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... Doubleday, 1 963 .) [ 164 ] McHale, John, The Future of the Future. (New York: George Braziller, 1 969 .) [ 165 ] Marek, Kurt W., Yestermorrow. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1 961 .) [ 166 ] Medawar, P. B., The Future ... of Chicago Press, 1 964 .) [48] Smith, Alfred G., (ed.), Communications and Culture. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1 966 .) 166 For exposure to advertising mess...

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