Future shock, Alvin Toffler

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The instance Future shock, Alvin Toffler represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.

Label

Future shock, Alvin Toffler

Statement of responsibility

Alvin Toffler

Instantiates

• Future shock

Publication

• New York, Random House, ©1970

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-483)

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

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

Control code

ocm00087496

Dimensions

23 cm

Extent

xii, 505 pages

Lccn

67012744

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

u32174

System control number

• (Sirsi) 92284
• (OCoLC)00087496