House Speaker Newt Gingrich talks with the Tofflers in 1994 in Washington, D.C. Joe Marquette/AP At the core of Toffler's vision was that society wasn't just changing, but changing faster than it ever had before. Roblox Asset Downloader 2014 Movies. He popularized the notion of 'information overload' and wondered whether human beings could psychologically handle being bombarded by so much information and by change itself.

Toffler warned that people might be 'doomed to a massive adaptational breakdown.' While that might sound bleak, the tone of Toffler's books was more of a curious intellectual musing about what might happen, than a doomsday forecaster of inevitable emotional cataclysm. Here's how the introduction to Future Shock begins. 'This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. Shyama Sangeet Mp3 Download By Kumar Sanu. It is about the ways in which we adapt — or fail to adapt — to the future.

Much has been written about the future. Yet, for the most part, books about the world to come sound a harsh metallic note. These pages, by contrast, concern themselves with the 'soft' or human side of tomorrow. Moreover, they concern themselves with the steps by which we are likely to reach tomorrow. They deal with common, everyday matters — the products we buy and discard, the places we leave behind, the corporations we inhabit, the people who pass at an ever faster clip through our lives. The future of friendship and family life is probed.

Strange new subcultures and life styles are investigated, along with an array of other subjects from politics and playgrounds to skydiving and sex. 'What joins all these — in the book as in life — is the roaring current of change, a current so powerful today that it overturns institutions, shifts our values and shrivels our roots.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.' The book was the first in a trilogy that included the best-sellers The Third Wave and Powershift. Over his lifetime, Toffler's books not only sold millions of copies, they also influenced political leaders across China and Asia, Russia, and here in the U.S. Prominent entrepreneurs, technologists, and top executives sought Toffler's counsel as well.