Future Shock

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As Robert Hughes wrote in his 1980 book The Shock of the New, “Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future.”
alexi gunner added
As the individual experiences an ever-growing sense of acceleration provided by technological developments (new media and the “speeding up” of the infosphere) alongside a general decrease in security of past provisions and expectations (read: precarity, freelance positions, housing shortages, and increasing wealth disparities coexisting with rhetor... See more
from Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images by Jess Henderson
Sixian added
either we do not respond at all or we do not respond quickly enough or effectively enough to the changes occurring around us. He called our paralysis in the face of change-demanding change Future Shock. One of the objectives of this book is to overcome such paralysis.
from Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management by Russell L. Ackoff

from Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images by Jess Henderson