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  <title><![CDATA[Future Shock]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alvin Toffler]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was written 37 years ago, and Toffler's predictions have to a great degree come true. If you've never read Toffler, he's a must. A classic. Here Toffler speaks of a &quot;Future Shock&quot; in which people are not able to adjust to the quickening pace of society due to technological change...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25791427">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is divided into 6 parts.  Part 1 introduces the basic program (death of permanence), Parts 2-4 explain the 3 factors that induce future shock: transience, novelty and diversity and Parts 5-6 bring in future shock and possibly coping strategies.  For me, it was initially a very slow read, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10611111">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Accurate picture of cultural forces clashing in the 21st century where the information age brings about changes that those who are for accelerating into the technological era embrace while those who yearn for old days where things were seen as rosy, they reject the movement of this new era.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/997452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27297865">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this years ago &amp; liked it.  It's worth reading again, almost 40 years after it was originally published.  It's even more true.  'Future Shock' is based on the term 'Culture Shock' &amp; Toffler's book deals with how the future is coming at us so fast that we're all in a state of shock from dealin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27297865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10312061">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Dec 24 05:36:37 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating book!  I won't pretend that I'm smart enough to wrap my head around even half the concepts that Toffler brings up, but those that I did understand were pretty mind-blowing.  It starts out and ends up a bit dry, but the ideas put forth in this are amazing, and 30 years out it's interestin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10312061">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34347812">
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Future Shock</em> was required reading in the humanities program at my college in the 60s. I wasn't impressed by Toffler high opinion of himself nor the uniqueness of his &quot;vision&quot; for the future. That said, his theme seemed to be right.  <br/><br/>In fact, as a certifiable Old Foogie, I am no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34347812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23710113">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the beginning of Toffler's trilogy that continued with The Third Wave and PowerShift.  In each of them, he looked at the world and said, &quot;This is where we're going, and here's why.&quot;  He and his wife, Heidi, who co-wrote these, seemed to be able to see about a decade ahead of the r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23710113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74882561">
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book proposes a warning of impending social decay caused by a condition the author calls &quot;Future Shock&quot;. In the first 2/3rds of the book, he spends a great deal of time explaining the elements contributing to Future Shock, namely &quot;transience&quot; and the &quot;accelerative thrus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74882561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The main point is that technology has accelerated the pace of human life, and it points out how totally this rapid change is affecting us.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, this book is not interesting enough to sustain its length (487 dense pages).  I've decided to skim and/or skip around to only the speci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51589132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book does offer some insights into the nature of change and the possible effects and outcomes, it suffers from a lack of data and breath of understand. This creates large assumptions from not enough sources leading to incorrect assessments. The authors breathy pronouncements, fail to realize a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23752282">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this as a teenager and was bored with the lack of technical info about how we'd all be using jetpacks to get around town by circa 1990. As an adult, I'm much more interested in sociology, social psychology, and the like. This book turned out to be, on my second read, surprisingly, a self-help...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38196715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47747877">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1977</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in college and re-read it half way through my career.  It formed a lot of my ideas on education, economy and I used those ideas in my career.<br/><br/>I am and have been very impressed with his ability to pull stats/numbers together and understand the overall picture and see the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47747877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10838898">
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me three years to get around to finishing this book.  It's a pretty painful read.  Toffler has a bad habit of creating at least one neologism in each chapter.  In my opinion, resorting to neologisms is just a failure to analyze your own arguments.  Neologisms are a cheap way out.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10838898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51869824">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lyn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really triggered my thinking about the world in which I live.  I thought it was amazing the vision Toffler had and wonder how he would edit his work to update the language now that many of these things have occured.]]></body>
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    <review id="763512">
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    <body><![CDATA[U must read this b4 having or telling or discussing any Opinion about anything around your world!<br/>it gives u a glass to see!<br/><br/>best sociology book ever! <br/>if u r by any chance a part of the world between 1960-2060 <br/>u Have 2 read these aalvin tofler series! <br/><br/><br/>19...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/763512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51496209">
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    <body><![CDATA[ive realized that the future is too far in the past for this sci fi writer. I need to finish it to finish it. He does have some good references to nomadic lifestyles, throw away society/the rapid wave of development. <br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="50696399">
    <user id="2169435">
    <name><![CDATA[Sheik]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1969</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only constant will be change. Still waiting for this insane society to catch up with that idea....the status quo of the military industrial complex is destroying the world. Eisenhower was right!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[wow this book is so relavant to today. If your interested in society polictics and the chaning world,<br/>all about what change does to the world  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My ex-husband introduced me to Alvin Toffler's books - who knew? :)<br/>Anyway, he's a great sociologist and even now, the books are germane.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read it back in 1975 or so, when I was a teenager. It knocked me out then and still has a power. I re-read it every so often]]></body>
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