El shock del futuro

El shock del futuro
de Alvin Toffler
Género	No ficción
Tema(s)	Ciencias sociales
Idioma	Inglés
Título original	Future Shock
Editorial	Random House
País	Estados Unidos
Fecha de publicación	1970
Serie
	El shock del futuro	La tercera ola
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Future Shock es un libro escrito por el futurista Alvin Toffler en 1970.

En el libro, Toffler define el término shock futuro como un estado psicológico concreto que afecta tanto a individuos como a sociedades enteras. La definición más corta del término es la percepción personal de "demasiado cambio en un período de tiempo demasiado corto".

El libro, que se convirtió en un superventas a nivel internacional, se escribió a partir del artículo "The Future as a Way of Life" aparecido en la revista Horizon, en verano de 1965.^[1]​^[2]​^[3]​^[4]​ Traducido a multitud de idiomas, ha vendido más de seis millones de copias en todo el mundo.

En 1972 aparece un documental^[5]​ basado en el libro, con Orson Welles como narrador.

1. ↑ Toffler, Alvin, "The Future as a Way of Life", Horizon magazine, Summer 1965, Vol VII, Num 3
2. ↑ Horizon magazine: master index"
3. ↑ Eisenhart, Mary, "Alvin And Heidi Toffler: Surfing The Third Wave: On Life And Work In The Information Age", MicroTimes #118, January 3, 1994
4. ↑ "Alvin Toffler: still shocking after all these years: New Scientist meets the controversial futurologist" Archivado el 10 de febrero de 2009 en Wayback Machine., New Scientist, 19 March 1994, pp. 22-25. "What led you to write Future Shock? -- While covering Congress, it occurred to us that big technological and social changes were occurring in the United States, but that the political system seemed totally blind to their existence. Between 1955 and 1960, the birth control pill was introduced, television became universalized, commercial jet travel came into being and a whole raft of other technological events occurred. Having spent several years watching the political process, we came away feeling that 99 per cent of what politicians do is keep systems running that were laid in place by previous generations of politicians. Our ideas came together in 1965 in an article called 'The future as a way of life', which argued that change was going to accelerate and that the speed of change could induce disorientation in lots of people. We coined the phrase 'future shock' as an analogy to the concept of culture shock. With future shock you stay in one place but your own culture changes so rapidly that it has the same disorienting effect as going to another culture"
5. ↑ Future Shock (film)