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Future Shock Re-assessed
Richard A. Slaughter
Abstract
The 'future shock' thesis offered a popularised version of social and technological change that received wide attention during the 1970s. It provided a number of suggestions under the general heading of 'the strategy of social futu made in america rism'. This essay both critiques the thesis and assesses it in terms of constituting a stimulus to the development of Futures Studies as an applied discipline.
Introduction
The notion of future shock attracted widespread attention in the early 1970s but never became intellectually respectable. What it did do was to help express widely felt concerns about the nature of changing times. For many people the revolutions and changes of the early 20th century overturned their sense of normalcy, of a predictable and settled social order. Instability became the norm in many domains of social and economic life.
Consequently the future no longer appeared normal and natural. It increasingly looked more like some kind of artefact - a consequence of what people did or failed......
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