On Future Shock

This is a decent book, published in 1970, that takes the insights of culture shock and applies them to people living through the acceleration of virtually everything. Toffler describes a transition from “industrial” to “super-industrial” society, which we’d now recognize as the “post-industrial” shift, and I suspect the same process is underway today in the move to a cybernetic society — to whatever extent these can be treated as discrete periods at all; it may well be continuous. One section was effectively science fiction in 1970 and remains science fiction in 2024. Even so, it was a worthwhile read, and it keeps its relevance.