Future Shock

The one that I ran across in this article that I had heard of but I didn't know anything about was Alvin Toffler's Future Shock.

But it came out in 1970 and it predicts a future where too much rapid change, technological change and advancement, it happens too quickly and people get all sorts of stressed and just worn out and basically have all manner of terrible reactions to it.

I'm like, well, that guy predicted 2015.

there was that famous book from the 70s called Future Shock that sold like millions of copies and popularized the phrase information overload

Somebody put Future Shock, the video, the Future Shock documentary about the book by Alvin Toffler back in the day. And one of the things that I was sort of scanning through, but one of the things that popped out was this idea, very prominent piece of his thesis is that relationships become disposable. And he didn't get into the consequence of that. And now we're living it.

That's right. And in a way, the fact that Google has replaced Dear Abby as part of our big problem, people are going to screens instead of going to each other.

He said that technology is going to go so fast that humans will never be able to catch up.