Arquivo para September 27th, 2013
The shock of the future arrived?
27
Sep
Amidst all these changes possible, but without having sufficient strength to implement them stayed in revisiting
past ideas and theories, and I did not escape it.
One of the readings of my youth was the “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler, like everyone is a traitor to interpret a work, and trying to escape it, I quote the very Toffler:
“In 1965, an article published in Horizon magazine, coined the term ‘future shock’ to describe the shattering stress and disorientation that we caused to individuals by subjecting them to too much change in a short space of time too.” (Toffler, 1970 p. 8)
He will say the future shock is the danger of a real disease, “” which already suffers an ever more people. ” (Idem, p. 8) “about both those that require adaptability and cause major changes in our society” (ibid, ibid).
With this we must question the logic of speech Toffler, and asks what it also does is to “live up to these changes.” (Toffler, 1970, p. 8).
To understand this, he returns to the U.S. in period reacceleration in postwar society and sees a readjusting: “Around 1956, the United States became the first major power in which more than 50% of the workforce not agricultural stopped using jeans feature of industrial or manual labor “(Toffler, 1970, p. 20).
And it makes an important observation: “If the slowdown is a new social force, transience is its psychological equivalent, and if we do not understand the role it plays in contemporary human behavior, all our theories of personality, and our entire psychology remain hopelessly premodern. (Toffler, 1970, p. 23).
Continue reading Toffler, however, but a partial completion is growing at any price, could mean a price too high.
