future shock

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future shock

(by analogy with the term CULTURE SHOCK) the shock provided by the ‘perception’ of future possibilities in a world that is changing at an ever-increasing rate and in a way that disrupts people's perspectives and tends to bring confusion. The term was coined by Alvin Toffler (1970).

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