The Information Age: Future Shock

The following is the background of the information age. Due to the benefits of time and space, I try to shorten, but I have to make keypoints. After doing this observation, I intend to limit my comments about the information age to some of Alvin Toffler's famous works, but I will divide this blog into three parts based on the following. :

Alvin Toffler is, of course, a famous name in academia. He is a sociologist's prophet, futurist, and has written numerous books. What I mentioned above relates to the changes he wrote.

The first book on his change is "the shock of the future", in which he states that "knowledge accelerates knowledge acquisition, promotes knowledge acquisition, promotes large engines of technology and accelerates change" .

He observed that the knowledge system of this generation (1970) increased, exceeding the knowledge system of the past generation.

In a telephone conversation with my friend Roger Greer, he observed that the 1993 knowledge system doubles every six years and by 2023 it doubles in six months!

"By 2010, the world's accumulated knowledge base will double every 11 hours."

The basic idea of ​​the "future shock" is that you will enter into a "shock of the future" when the speed of change is faster than they can assimilate ... you will be nervous .. You just give up.

A few years ago, I entered the "shock of the future" ... due to e-mail! I gave up because mail was too fast. I have thousands of emails, I have not read them yet! Maybe some of my family is dead ... I do not know. But I am trying to catch up ... but you will never go on vacation! That is happening!

One thing we know about the information age is that the pace of change is accelerating and that it is dramatically rising. Many people do not agree with this ... it is no longer just a company problem. This has become a personal problem!

Alvin Toffler created the words "information overload" and "future shock." The influence of Toffler is spreading all around the world, and it is also recognized in the People's Daily as one of 50 foreigners that affect modern China. His first major work on Future, Future Shock, is a worldwide bestseller with 6 million sales. Herman Kahn's work focuses on national security and public policy, in particular the application of game theory in thermonuclear warfare. Kahn believes that nuclear warfare can be won rather than being seen as a situation of a losing group. Former colleagues Khan and RAND established the think tank of Hudson Institute. At the time of his death, Kahn had developed an educational program aimed at "remedying the imbalance of relentless denial in public school curriculum"

Future Shock is a book published by Futuristic Alvin and Heidi Toffler in 1970, and the author defines "the influence of the future" as a state of mind of individuals and society as a whole. Their shortest definition of that term is that which an individual thinks is "too short-lived change over time". This book has become an international bestseller from the article of "The Future as a way of life" of Summer of Horizon magazine in 1965. This book sells over 6 million copies and is widely translated.

Future Shock is a book published by Futuristic Alvin Toffler in 1970, in which the author defines the "future shock" as the mental state of individuals and society as a whole. The shortest term he defined shortly is that the individual thinks "the change is too short over time." Alvin Toffler, written 48 years ago, believes that society is undergoing tremendous structural change from industrial society to super-industrial society. This change overwhelmed the people. We believe that accelerated technologies and changes in society distract people from "destruction of pressure and disorientation" - a shock to the future

Rushkov's title is Future Shock, the book that is the best selling book in 1970, and the future futurist Alvin Toffler explains the society overwhelmed that "too much change in too short a time is too big". - And it has been criticized for a long time - but it makes use of some remarkable ideas of that time like the concept of "information overload". This is the dawn of mass media and the golden age of disaster movies, and when Nixon invades the White House, American soldiers die in Vietnam, the best-selling book, The Population Bomb will become large due to over-population I predict. Utopian illusion in famine; science fiction novel became darker; as the economy appeared in the second half of the decade, the Cold War stagnated. In other words, there is reason to worry about the pace of change and the ability we can catch up.