Future Shock |
Monday Aug 18 2008
By Jim Selman | BioSince Alvin Toffler published Future Shock in the 1970s, futurists have been speculating what will happen in the coming decades. As with most attempts at long-range predictions, the proof is in the pudding. Most turn out to be somewhat accurate, along with lots of unpredictable ‘surprises’. No one, for example, anticipated the Internet, globalization, Google, global terrorism, cell phones or the unimaginable cost of energy. The future continues to be a fickle mistress and pretty much does what she wants to do, regardless of our prognostications.[Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
Tagged with: agrarian globalization heidegger protectionism toffler trade_talks
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