Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

Future Shock is a 1970 book by American futurist Alvin Toffler, written together with his wife Adelaide Farrell, in which the authors define the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, and a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time.

Toffler proposed one criterion for distinguishing between industrial society and post-industrial society: the share of the population occupied in agriculture versus the share of city labor occupied in the services sector. In a post-industrial society, the share of the people occupied in agriculture does not exceed 15%, and the share of city laborers occupied in the services sector exceeds 50%. Thus, the share of the people occupied with brainwork greatly exceeds the share of the people occupied with physical work in post-industrial society. He distinguished three stages in the development of society and production: agrarian, industrial, and post-industrial and IT.

Book Review by: Maqsood Qadir Soomro

Master's in English, Master's in Sindhi, Post-Graduate Diploma in Industrial Laws, LLB and Twice Qualified in CCE-2013

Author of the book "Sindhi Jo Adabi Khazano"

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