Future Shock 2023, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.4 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In the 1970 book “Future Shock,” futurist Alvin Toffler outlined a vision of post-industrial society in which rapid technological and social changes outstrip the average human’s ability to cope. More than half a century later, how does this idea hold up and are contemporary humans victims of future shock? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss how it seems to be panning out.

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1:44.0	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam, and I am Joe McCormick.
1:55.2	So the world is of course always changing. We know this to be true, and yet I don't know about the rest of you, and this is going to probably very greatly.
2:05.6	I was actually talking about my wife with this right before I came in, and she was like, what are you recording about today?
2:12.8	And I was like, well, we're going to be talking about this concept, future shock.
2:15.6	And she's like, oh, yeah, you've explained it to me before. Can you explain it again? And I did. And she said, oh, that's not real.
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