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Shock Quotes by Alvin Toffler
- Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
- Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
- 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.
- Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
- To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search…
- Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect…
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- I like to shock people. — Jo Brand
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