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	Future Shock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Future Shock is a controversial book written by the sociologist and futurologist Alvin Toffler in 1970.
		Future shock is also a term for certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, introduced by Toffler in his book of the same name.
		Toffler's shortest definition of future shock is a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time." The concept of future shock bears resemblance to the early 21st century concept of "The Technological singularity".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Future_Shock (246 words)

	Michael Anissimov - Future Shock Level Analysis
		An example of a statement likely to incur future shock in the contemporary layperson might be: "barring any major disasters, there's a strong possibility that medical nanotechnology will eventually be used to cure all diseases and extend human lifespan indefinitely".
		Future shock is a genuine problem in our world, causing millions to withold support from humanitarian projects that hinge on a thorough understanding of technological futurism.
		Future shock is defined by Yudkowsky (1999) as being "impressed, frightened, or blindly enthusiastic" towards the future, or specific social or technological advances.
	www.acceleratingfuture.com /michael/works/shocklevelanalysis.htm (5267 words)

	Amazon.com: Future Shock: Books: Alvin Toffler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Future Shock was written in 1970, and it must have caused a sensation at the time.
		This disconnect is "future shock," an inability to process the enormous amounts of information and change associated with the super-industrial revolution.
		Toffler likens future shock to the same sort of disorientation that a person experiences when he moves to a new area, or a new country, and suffers a severing of all he has known.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553277375?v=glance (2548 words)

	Future Shock Levels
		Shock Level Zero or SL0, for example, is modern technology and the modern-day world, SL1 is virtual reality or an ecommerce-based economy, SL2 is interstellar travel, medical immortality or genetic engineering, SL3 is nanotech or human-equivalent AI, and SL4 is the Singularity.
		SL1: Virtual reality, living to be a hundred, "The Road Ahead", "To Renew America", "Future Shock", the frontiers of modern technology as seen by Wired magazine.
		Shock Levels are interesting because they seem to define a fixed-point theorem for novelty-seekers.
	yudkowsky.net /sing/shocklevels.html (906 words)

	Dance Magazine: Culture shock/future shock: hip-hop steps off the street - Young Dancer® - Angie Bunch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Culture Shock and Future Shock are family minded, certainly--theirs is street dancing minus the perils of the street: Directors monitor lyrics in the music they use for practice and performance, encourage a drug-and violence-free environment, and favor a more fully dressed dress code than music videos do.
		The dancers of Future Shock are expected to commit themselves for at least a full school year, Culture Shock members for a full year, and both to GPA maintenance and rehearsal and performance time, depending on how many appearances their directors book.
		Culture Shock is ostensibly a professional company, but performances aren't necessarily paying gigs: Whatever money comes in goes back into costumes, transportation, and general maintenance according to Culture Shock SF Director Kim Sims-Battiste.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_10_76/ai_92136012 (1141 words)

	Toffler: Future Shock
		Toffler was highly influenced by science fiction writers, and in turn his vision of a society in the grips of an uncontrollable and accelerating plunge into the future was an influence on much science fiction of the 1970s.
		In the early 1990s he won new celebrity as a mentor to self-proclaimed Republican Revolutionary Newt Gingrich (he was associated with Gingrich's Progress and Freedom Foundation and had known Gingrich back in his "history professor" days of the early 1970s).
		They shared a belief in the evils of strong government, the revolutionary power of "cyberspace" in public life, and the need to reshape government in response to the demands of an information-centric future.
	www.tomandmaria.com /st197/toffler.htm (352 words)

	future shock and other futures related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Future Shock Levels ©1999 by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky.
		Future Shock Don't be surprised if these five technologies provide a jolt to the marketing profession By Fred Hapgood Historically, marketers have been early adopters, picking up on cultural changes...
		Future Shock (Although the term "future shock" was originally coined by Alvin Toffler in his book of the same name in 1970, this essay primarily focuses on Yudkowsky's...
	www.nethorde.com /futures/future-shock.html (259 words)

	Future Hi: Future Shock Levels
		The first person to introduce the concept of Future Shock was Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book, Future Shock.
		So he came up with what he calls Future Shock Levels or the level that different people find themselves in terms of their concept of the future, and what they are willing to consider, or which is too futuristic or even shocking for them.
		When they discuss wide ranging implications of their policy decisions, there is hardly any mention of technological change at all, and only in the most mundane ways with concepts of Level 1 being described as something to be afraid of, with dangerous out-of-control implications.
	www.futurehi.net /archives/000117.html (1826 words)

	future shock
		Film has been called future-proof because it can survive long periods of time in a state of benign neglect, and can be transferred to different future presentation technologies from the original negative, answer print, intermediate, dupe negative, or release print, if that's all that survives.
		But even this method, since it is digital, remains machine-dependent to "read" the paper record, while a future viewer can simply hold their images up to a light to view them.
		Finally, how many of these people in the position to decide the future are even aware of the term "content migration?" If they work with electronic acquisition, this term will become a huge component of their future vocabulary, especially if they want to maintain programs for future revenue streams.
	www.cameraguild.com /technology/future_shock.htm (3115 words)

	Future Shock - Editorial - CMO Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Over a large enough population, there is always someone, or a small group of someones, who either knows about a product before it has been announced, has guessed what it will be or just happens to be talking about a similar function.
		Collective actual bets are a better predictor of racetrack outcomes than an expert's forecast, orange juice futures seem to understand the weather more accurately than a meteorologist, and the number of beans in a jar is usually guessed best by taking the average of all guesses than by choosing any single one.
		Last summer's controversial terrorist futures market raised public awareness of the concept even further—although the Pentagon quickly abandoned the idea after it became public.
	www.cmomagazine.com /press/shock (2199 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		The group was asked to focus on those events with a potential for high planet-wide or regional impact, either physically and directly or via knock-on effects on the global economy or social fabric.
		Concerned by big earthquakes in the Caribbean and the future collapse of the Canary Islands’ unstable Cumbre Vieja volcano, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration even plans to have an Atlantic tsunami warning system up and running in two years’ time.
		The legacy of the Asian tsunami has spawned a desire to tackle future extreme hazards head-on, but it is a desire that will soon sink beneath a sea of other priorities.
	www.mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=247087&area=/insight/monitor (798 words)

	China's Future Shock
		Free speech, it seems, is one shock that the founding grandfathers hope to keep in the future.
		Dong Jun thinks the government was itself shocked after Tiananmen into a shift in approach, focusing less on overall reform and more on economic growth designed to assuage all the angst with opportunities.
		Ron Gluckman is an American reporter based in Hong Kong, who roams around Asia for a number of publications, such as GEO, which commissioned this story for a special issue on China in the summer of 2003.
	www.gluckman.com /China'sFutureShock.html (3110 words)

	Future Shock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His hating eyes stared into the blank eyes of his android enemy, and for a moment Trunks sensed that something was not right with this android.
		The ground was filled with the wounded and the dead, mixed with spare parts, and dead androids, and above all it began to smell horrible in the noon day sun.
		Mirai no Trunks grit his teeth, his ki was rising by the minute, and it peeked sending him into a state of golden aura and yellow hair.
	wos.keenspace.com /future16.html (2014 words)

	The Future Shock - Part 1 - Zane Figiam
		I pondered it for a moment, then put on my best “important face” and told him, “I accept the responsibility of the future.” Zane shook my hand as he hurriedly handed off the package.
		“Open in case of future” was written on it, which I blatantly disobeyed.
		Track after track of unfamiliar 80s music from the CD played as I spent the rest of the night thumbing through the book.
	www.thefutureshock.com (430 words)

	Future Shock
		Executives of certain Big Five major record labels, such as EMI, claim that they understand what the Internet means to their business.
		But I think that the major labels are in for a big shock.
		Once broadband Internet delivery to home-based performance systems becomes a reality, the record-label business model may have to be reinvented, and not because of piracy.
	emusician.com /mag/emusic_future_shock/index.html (554 words)

	Future Shock
		As far as gold, I have no plan to sell any of it in the near future.
		The only bright spot in the future is that the Earth has twice as much recoverable GAS HYDRIDE as folks ever thought.
		This is a type of methane gas that is frozen into a powder form under the Earth.
	www.chuckharder.com /future_shock.htm (1246 words)

	Future Shock
		Their fate (you can't really call it a job) is to remain forever in that stage of childhood where every shadow in the bedroom conceals a monster.
		Unfortunately, the monsters are real: They are the murderers who will strike in the near future, and whose crimes the psychics not only foresee but experience.
		So childhood pain in Minority Report bleeds into fear of crime, which blossoms into a fantasy of omnipotence--and this fantasy in turn sows further pain, in the form of little stabs to the eye.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20020722/klawans (1294 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Future Shock [Remastered]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Much more concerned with electronic trickery and, at the the time what must have been, futuristic keyboard samples, this sounds dated and sluggish.
		Hancock is trying too hard to create the sounds of the future, even the classic single ROCKIT is camouflaged by an over layered complex noise that spirals uncontrollably before and after it without the excitement of his earlier funk.
		His saving grace being, I guess, that it was an expmeriment with new technology - with which he was always at the forefront.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002DEBM (423 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Future Shock: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rethinking the Future: Rethinking Business Principles, Competition, Control and Complexity, Leadership, Markets and the World; Paperback ~ Alvin Toffler (Foreword), et al
		It describes the many aspects of change in our current world in a lively and relevant fashion.
		Amusingly the only bit which is really wide of the mark is the predictions of the future where Toffler interviewed various people at the then cutting edge and asked them about the year 2000.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330028618 (411 words)

	Future Shock (1993/I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Do not listen to other reviews here because this episode may be better enjoyed by those who don't like sci-fi and horror, and obviously many reviewers here were expecting those two genres when they watched a film titled "Future Shock." Anyone who likes normal comedy-drama's with a pinch of romance should appreciate it.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Future Shock (1993/I)
		They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0106983 (538 words)

	Amazon.com: Future Shock: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Browse and search another edition of this book.
		Guidelines for instituting "appropriate technology" vs. irresponsible, runaway technology are covered.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394425863?v=glance (2593 words)

	Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave October 4 in History
		Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave October 4 in History
		Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave
		Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1928/october_4_1928_87840.html (55 words)

	Future Shock?
		We deliver whatever doctors want in bags," says PSS/World Medical CEO David A. Smith.
		Ramsey's bigger wish, however, is for Oracle to articulate a clear road map for the future, something he claims PeopleSoft was "mealy-mouthed" about in regards to J.D. Edwards.
		Although Webster acknowledges that his choices are largely limited to Oracle and SAP these days, he doesn't expect that to be the case forever: "If you can hold on for five years, you may be able to outsource your core functionality in the future.
	www.baselinemag.com /article2/0,1397,1751661,00.asp (1711 words)

	IGN: Terminator: Future Shock
		Find out what other IGN readers have to say about Terminator: Future Shock.
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	pc.ign.com /objects/003/003387.html (183 words)

	UPW - Future Shock - Collectors Editions
		Go back to: Catalog > List of Products
		UPW - Future Shock - Over 200 minutes in 2 action pack VHS volumes.
		See UPW take on the best in pro wrestling.
	upw.com /Catalog/upw_-_future_shock_-_collectors_editions_1269058.htm (111 words)

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