Future Shock at 40: What the Tofflers Got Right (and Wrong)

Greg Lindsay: They predicted the “electronic frontier” of the Internet, Prozac, YouTube, cloning, home-schooling, the self-induced paralysis of too many choices, instant celebrities, and the end of blue-collar manufacturing. Not bad for 1970. In the opening minutes of Future Shock, a 1972 documentary based on the book of the same name, a bearded, cigar-puffing, world-weary … Continue reading Future Shock at 40: What the Tofflers Got Right (and Wrong)