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- catalog abstract "Describes some of the problems our technology has created for society and suggests some strategies for coping in the future.".
- catalog contributor b1784275.
- catalog created "c1970.".
- catalog date "1970".
- catalog date "c1970.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1970.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 461-483.".
- catalog description "Describes some of the problems our technology has created for society and suggests some strategies for coping in the future.".
- catalog description "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 psychological dimension -- Part six. Strategies for survival. Coping with tomorrow - Education in the future tense - Taming technology - The strategy of social futurism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.".
- catalog extent "xii, 505 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Future shock.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Future shock.".
- catalog issued "1970".
- catalog issued "c1970.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "Future shock.".
- catalog subject "301.2/4".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Modern 1950-".
- catalog subject "Civilization.".
- catalog subject "HN 17.5 T644f 1970".
- catalog subject "HN17.5 .T64".
- catalog subject "Regression (Civilization)".
- catalog subject "Social Change.".
- catalog subject "Social change.".
- catalog subject "Social history 1945-".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 psychological dimension -- Part six. Strategies for survival. Coping with tomorrow - Education in the future tense - Taming technology - The strategy of social futurism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.".
- catalog title "Future shock / by Alvin Toffler.".
- catalog type "text".