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Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.
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In the following review, Weeks describes Future Shock as “ the most prophetic, disturbing, and stimulating social study of this year,” commenting that Toffler's argument throughou...
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In the following review of Future Shock, Millar asserts that Toffler's predictions about the future signal the increasing importance of religion with helping people face the challenges of the f...
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In the following excerpt, Bethell observes that, contrary to Toffler's thesis in Future Shock, current advances in technology have not profoundly altered human life.
I remember, around 1970, wo...
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In the following review, Hope asserts that Future Shock fails to present original ideas and neglects to examine topics in a broader historical or sociological context.
Change is today's great c...
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In the following review, Hayes compares Future Shock to two other books about the impact of technology on the future—Technopolis by Nigel Calder and Between Two Ages by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Our...
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In the following excerpt, Maddox categorizes Future Shock as a work of “Doomsday literature,” which, he observes, fails to address several serious questions about the future.
The men who...
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In the following review, Kelly offers a positive assessment of Future Shock, praising the work for its reflection on “the human condition of change.”
Do you generally feel harassed, conf...
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In the following essay, McCracken describes Future Shock as a work of “pop futurism” and points out a variety of weaknesses in Toffler's arguments.
For an observer with a moderate...
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In the following review, Blendon discusses the implications of Toffler's predictions in Future Shock for archivists of the future.
[In Future Shock,] Toffler theorizes that society's rap...
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Critical Review by Edward Weeks
