Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less than a generation ago, a species of future shock overcame many laymen when they contemplated a new invention-the electronic computer. There was vague anxiety about machines that could think, a corner-of-the-eye vision of humanoid steel creatures winking out their possibly baleful computations. It was-and still is-modern man's version of the Frankenstein anxiety...
...black ink." The political alternatives open to dissident conservatives, according to Buckley: "They can stay home. They will not go out and win new votes through their enthusiasm. This is very important, because it is the conservatives who hustle up the money, who are the shock troops in campaigns. If what is now a concern gels into outright opposition, Nixon will have lost a source of support, energy, drive and money...
...shock waves, he reported, indicated that the moon has a crustlike surface layer at least 15 miles thick...
...occupation authorities 23 sets of dog tags that had been taken from U.S. prisoners of war who were in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. In the confusion of postwar Japan, their deaths were never publicly acknowledged. Most were captured airmen, and most doubtless died in the first shock wave. But Eyewitness Tamura clearly recalls seeing the bodies of two American P.O.W.s who had been beaten to death, apparently with rifle butts, by their military captors...
...Future Shock, Toffler...