Future Shock Quotes

“Things simply move too fast; before one can accustom oneself to an invention, it is already supplanted by a new one, so that one more and more lacks the most elementary ‘cognitive mapping’ needed to grasp these developments.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Event

“With the present violent historical acceleration - each new generation of knowledge occurs every ten years - the day is close when everything I know will be completely obsolete (for all the good it did me!) and I will still be alive.”
― Edmundo Desnoes, Memories of Underdevelopment