Future Shock →
This is an absolute gem and an almost forgotten one - a documentary version of Alvin Toffler’s classic 70s book, Future Shock presented by Orson Welles.
The premise of Future Shock was that the pace of human progress had achieved a level which would create a pathological reaction, a metaphorical motion sickness caused by the fact that nothing seemed permanent.Unlike most past views of tomorrow, which look hopelessly obsolete (’nothing dates like the future’), the premise of Future Shock can only get stronger since not only progress itself, but the derivative of it, its increasing rate of change, exacerbates the core phenomenon.
I haven’t read Future Shock, but Alvin Toffler’s sequel called Third Wave has influenced me significantly.
