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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 shift will take place in the future Toffler describes?

2. What is the consequence of the faster pace of things, in Toffler's account?

3. Where do people typically migrate, in America?

4. What is the benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?

5. How does Toffler see organizations in the future?

Short Essay Questions

1. What will change mean for the people of the future, in Toffler's account?

2. How does transience affect modern society?

3. What developments does Toffler foresee in agriculture and food production?

4. Describe the importance of the automobile in the super-industrial society.

5. What is the effect of the economics of transience?

6. What is the role of the organization in the future society?

7. What is the effect of urbanization on relationships?

8. What is the effect of change within organizations on future society?

9. How will marriage be affected by the super-industrial culture?

10. What did migration mean in Europe and in America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Future Shock fit in Toffler's lifelong works? What other books has he written, and what is Future Shock's relationship with his other books? What are the dominant themes of his writing and career?

Essay Topic 2

Is Toffler a pessimist or a realist? Is it possible to call him an optimist, insofar as he diagnoses a problem and prescribes a course of action for treating it?

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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