Future Shock

The best study of our times that I know. . . . Of all the books that I have read in the last 20 years, it is by far the one that has taught me the most. Le Figaro

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, organizationseven our patterns of friendship and love.

Future Shock vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrows family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, life-styles, and human relationshipsall of them temporary.

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

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

Praise for Future Shock

Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.The Wall Street Journal

A spectacular outcrop of a formidable, organized intellectual effort.Manchester Guardian

Revealing, exciting, encouraging, brilliant.The Christian Science Monitor

Immensely readable.Newsweek

Alvin Toffler has sent something of a shock-wave through Western society.London Daily Express

To the elite . . . who often get committed to age-old institutions or material goals alone, let Tofflers Future Shock be a lesson and a warning.The Times of India