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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What will the future entail in Toffler's account?
2. How has commuting changed in super-industrial culture?
3. With whom does a person have medium-term relationships, according to Toffler?
4. In what way is spring break in Ft. Lauderdale exemplary of super-industrial culture?
5. What will companies manufacture in Toffler's future?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the importance of the automobile in the super-industrial society.
2. What does Toffler foresee in the technology of fertility treatments?
3. What are the three characteristics of bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?
4. What is the effect of the economics of transience?
5. What does Toffler say is the danger of high technology?
6. How will super-industrialism change the economics of society?
7. How does future shock manifest?
8. How does Toffler describe deeper relationships?
9. What developments does Toffler foresee in agriculture and food production?
10. What did migration mean in Europe and in America?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a review of Future Shock. What does Toffler set out to do, and does he accomplish his goal? Where does the book fall short of its stated goals? Where does it seem conflicted in its execution or thinking? Is the book ultimately successful? Define the terms for measuring its success.
Essay Topic 2
What objections could be made to Toffler's suggestions for methods of remedying or preventing or mitigating the accelerative thrust? What would likely occur if his prescriptions were followed? What would the benefits be? What adverse effects might there be?
Essay Topic 3
How new is the concept of future shock, and is it unique to our time? Weren't people 2,500 years ago experiencing future shock as the transition to agriculture was made? Weren't people 250 years ago experiencing future shock when the transition to industrialism was made? What makes the 1970s different and unique?
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