Future Shock

book Profiles of the Future.

It’s a tablet, once considered the go-to device for science fiction stories about the future—my past—but they stopped being used when it was proven they changed brain chemistry, creating a vast societal addiction that reduced productivity and created generations of people capable of ignoring the world’s growing problems.

“possibility shock”—the startling understanding that things could be different, on a grand scale, if only we collectively wanted that enough. “What