Assignment No. 3 about Alvin Toffler's Book, Future Shock

The book of Alvin Toffler which is the Future Shock only focuses on: change and how we adapt to it. It is about those who seem to thrive on change, it is our capacity to adapt on the modernization of our society which in effect has it’s positive and negative effects. It is increasingly painful for us to ride on with the rapid changes of our society, we became a stranger of our own world.

Although we cannot control nor stop it, it is therefor based on us on how we adapt to it, how it will reaches our personal lives, how it will compel us to act on it. As what Alvin said Future shock is a psychological disease that confront us with it’s danger. This book also tackles the parallel of the future shock, which is the culture shock. I like the description of Toffler for the culture shock which is it happens “when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where yes may mean no, where a fixed price is negotiable, where to be kept waiting in an outer office is no cause for insult, where laughter may signify anger. It only means that modernity brings a rapid change to the culture, which is unannounced bringing a remarkable change. We as human beings became a strangers of our own world.

Because of this technological revolution, we became disoriented, leading to our breakdown , we experience misreading of reality wherein we all know that most of us have inability to cope with this rapid changes. It is therefore needed to stand on our selves because it is our responsibility on how we will adapt it as part of our lives, because we cannot stop or control it.