“Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.”
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To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.