ISBN: 0330028618
Godina izdanja: 1977
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alvin Toffler - Future Shock
Pan, 1977
517 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro, beleške na dvadesetak strana.

Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.

Alvin Toffler is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity. A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload.

Contents:
Introduction
Part one: The death of permanence
The 800th lifetime
The accelerative thrust
The pace of life
Part two: transience
Things: the throw-away society
Places: the new nomads
People: the modular man
Organization: the coming ad-hocracy
Information: the kinetic image
Part three: novelty
The scientific trajectory
The experience makers
The fractured family
Part four: diversity
The origins of overchoice
A surfeit of subcults
A diversity of life styles
Part five: the limits of adaptability
Future shock: the physical dimension
Future shock: the physical dimension
Future shock: the psychological dimension
Part six: strategies for survival
Coping with tomorrow
Education in the future tense
Taming technology
The strategy of social futurism


Sociology & Culture, Non Fiction, Psychology, History, Science, Technology, Futurology