Future Shock: The Limits of Human Adaptation — When the Speed of Change Becomes the Crisis
What if the greatest challenge facing modern civilization isn't technology itself—but the accelerating speed at which everything changes?
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In Future Shock, Alvin Toffler argues that the defining feature of modern life is not simply technological progress, but the unprecedented pace of change itself. As technological, economic, and social systems accelerate, they increasingly exceed humanity's biological and cognitive capacity to adapt. Rather than viewing stress, burnout, and social fragmentation as isolated…
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