Future Shock

By: Alvin Toffler

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations - even our patterns of friendship and love.

Future Shock vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrow's family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships - all of them temporary.

Future Shock illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today.

Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who listens to it.

©1984 Alvin Toffler (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Thought Provoking but Outdated

Early portions were remained applicable to the flow of civilization in 2025 with technology and cultural changes fast outpacing human abilities to adapt but much of the remainder contained inaccurate and outdated forecasts of the future and possible ways to address these future issues. Revolutionary for the 1970s but tedious listening in 2025.

As applicable today as when it was written

I found it striking that despite this book being written several decades ago that it could accurately articulate much of what current society is facing today.

Must read

Good for someone struggling with his life and needs a guidance or explanations what’s going on.

Everyone loves a good prescient book

Can’t get everything right with your predictions but Future Shock’s heart is certainly in the right place and definitely gets plenty right. It’s clear even then that people were reading books less because they could’ve learned quite a bit about making this world a better place by indulging Future Shock.

valuable when written. perhaps more so in 2020

while many predictions sound humorous now the concepts remain solid today as we look forward