“Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
The great growling engine of change - technology.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
