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Watch Future Shock: in 1972 Alvin Toffler’s film excited our human response to over-stimulation

by | 11th, June 2015

American writer Alvin Toffler poses during portrait session held on July 3, 1980 in Paris, France.

American writer Alvin Toffler poses during portrait session held on July 3, 1980 in Paris, France.

 

Those good people at Disinfo point us towards Future Shock, the film based on Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book. Released in 1972, Orson Welles narrates.

Alvin Toffler notes:

“We may define future shock as the distress, both physical and psychological, that arises from an overload of the human organism’s physical adaptive systems and its decision-making processes… Put more simply, future shock is the human response to over-stimulation…”

This is Future Shock…

 



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