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Nixon may be the first President to instinctively use Alvin Toffler's "roaring current of change." Events tumble over themselves in the reckless race of this society toward "future shock." Yesterday and its outrages are often obliterated by today and its triumphs...
...nobody talks about the end of the citizen. In Future Shock, Alvin Toffler writes about participatory democracy and the future of it, and yet everything in the new technology is antidemocratic. If you've got computers, you don't have to share information with the bureaucracy; you just give the elite access to instant information. All the information coming in from different sides-economic, political, religious, social-has one common thing and that is that it is antidemocratic, which is one reason why the kids keep talking about participation democracy. Because when something is about...
...Alvin Toffler, Sc.D., author...
...although immeasurable, psychic costs, even though those costs may not be visible. Especially when those changes touch people personally, as in the case of religion, morality and money matters, a sudden shift can be rudely disorienting. "The acceleration of change does not merely buffet industries or nations," contends Alvin Toffler in his bestselling Future Shock. "It is a concrete force that reaches deep into our personal lives, compels us to act out new roles, and confronts us with the danger of a new and powerfully upsetting psychological disease...
...Future Shock, Toffler...