Future Shock

*Future Shock*
Tipus	obra escrita
Fitxa
Autor	Alvin Toffler
Llengua	anglès
Publicació	Estats Units d'Amèrica, 1970
Editorial	Random House
Dades i xifres
Tema	ciències socials
Gènere	no-ficció
Sèrie
	The Third Wave (en) →
Altres
OCLC	87496

Future Shock és un llibre escrit pel futurista Alvin Toffler en 1970.

En el llibre, Toffler defineix el terme xoc futur com un estat psicològic concret que afecta tant a individus com a societats senceres. La definició més curta del terme és la percepció personal de "massa canvi en un període massa curt".

El llibre, que es va convertir en un supervendes a nivell internacional, es va escriure a partir de l'article "The Future as a Way of Life" aparegut en la revista Horizon, l'estiu de 1965.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Traduït a multitud d'idiomes, ha venut més de sis milions de còpies a tot el món.

En 1972 apareix un documental basat en el llibre, amb Orson Welles com a narrador.

↑ Toffler, Alvin, "The Future as a Way of Life", Horizon magazine, Summer 1965, Vol VII, Num 3
↑ «Horizon magazine: master index"». Arxivat de l'original el 2012-02-22. [Consulta: 15 octubre 2015].
↑ Eisenhart, Mary, "Alvin And Heidi Toffler: Surf The Third Wave: On Life And Work In The Information Age", MicroTimes #118, January 3, 1994
↑ "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"

[1] Toffler, Alvin, "The Future as a Way of Life", Horizon magazine, Summer 1965, Vol VII, Num 3

[2] «Horizon magazine: master index"». Arxivat de l'original el 2012-02-22. [Consulta: 15 octubre 2015].

[3] Eisenhart, Mary, "Alvin And Heidi Toffler: Surf The Third Wave: On Life And Work In The Information Age", MicroTimes #118, January 3, 1994

[4] "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"

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