{"id":16056,"date":"2010-05-05T23:41:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T06:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=16056"},"modified":"2010-05-05T21:23:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T04:23:45","slug":"future-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/16056","title":{"rendered":"Future Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Truth be told, some of Toffler\u2019s predictions have come to pass some 30 years later \u2013 his ‘precooked, prepackaged, plastic wrapped instant society’ is fairly dead-on  . . .  A small segment involving gay marriage also seems very prescient considering current events.’ –Odd Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Alvin Toffler’s 1970 novel<\/a> (above) was an interesting take on the future.<\/a> Too much technology, too much information, too fast.<\/p>\n

Toffler coined the term: Information overload.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1972 on a not-so-career-high, Orson Welles<\/a> narrated a made-for-teevee-wayy-too-serious-tho-unintentionally-goo<\/em>fy Future Shock documentary. Watch it here: <\/p>\n

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