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Seeking Delphi, Episode #41: After Shock and the Legacy of Alvin Toffler, with Jerome Glenn and Andrew Curry

February 23, 2020 by Leave a Comment

This post originally appeared on Seeking Delphi.™

“Future shock is a sickness that comes from too much change in too short a time.”–Alvin Toffler

The newly released volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and looking ahead to the next 50 years.  In this episode recorded just a few days after the book’s release, two of the contributing essayists, Jerome Glenn and Andrew Curry, discuss with me their views on the legacy of Toffler and Future Shock.   Below are links to the audio podcast as well as to the unedited YouTube video of the original webinar.

The day I read Future Shock, just a couple of years after it came out, was the day that started me on the course to becoming a futurist.  Here’s what I wrote on this blog when Toffler died in July of 2016.

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episode #41,  After Shock and the Legacy of Alvin Toffler

 

YouTube vidoe of original, unedited webinar

 

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Cosmic Quote #111

January 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment

“…future shock is no longer a distantly potential danger, but a real sickness from which increasingly large numbers already suffer.”–Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock 

Alvin Toffler published those words in the Introduction to Future Shock, fifty years ago.  If it was already a widespread malady in 1970, is it anything less than a rampant pandemic now?  If you can’t see the trappings of it all over the world, I have a guide dog I want to sell you.

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Cosmic Quote #69

July 13, 2016 by 4 Comments

“The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.”–Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler

No funny chickens for this one.   The world lost its foremost futurist in the past week,  a man who was one of my heroes.   Alvin Toffler taught the world how to think about the future some 45 years ago.  It’s a lesson the world should relearn.   I read Future Shock away back in 1973–and have been thinking about it–and the future–ever since.

Writing in the New York Times on July 6, Farhad Manjoo lays out clearly and concisely why Toffler’s ideas are so relevant today.  I highly urge you to read this piece, and to read Future Shock if you’ve never done so.  I intend to reread it now.  We have never needed foresight more than we do today.

My foresight related blog is available at www.seekingdelphi.com

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