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Name Institution Course Code and Title Professor Date Book Report: Future Shock The book Future Shock was authored by Alvin Toffler and published in 1970. It is a historical book whose main thesis is how society was experiencing quick changes that were significantly impacting people’s lives. The book was published during a time when the world was experiencing major changes in the industrial setting from simple industrial mechanization to super industrial environment. Illustratively, Toffler indicates that the changes in society have not been witnessed in the past three hundred years when changes have impacted social, economic, and technological areas (Toffler 1). The industrial changes have been translated into an interesting change that has seen people get forced to embrace the immense changes that impact every aspect of society. For instance, the book has illustrated how the changes have caused the world to adapt to the new reality, whereas the Vietnam War has been used to illustrate how changes have affected every part of the world (Toffler 6). The emphasis given to the shock that the changes create indicates that individuals, families and society. The shock created by the change is due to the fact that people are unprepared for changes that happen over a short period of time. In fact, information overload is witnessed, which is illustrated by Toffler as leading to social problems. For instance, social paralysis has been indicated to be a problem developed from the changes, which helps in giving meaning to the aspect of future shock (Toffler 162). The book ‘Future Shock’ is, therefore, illustrative of how technological and industrial changes have been overwhelming and how people interact with each other. Alvin Toffler makes a historical prediction that the future will be highly characterized by changes. The changes witnessed in society, as cited by Toffler, were based on technological, social, and economic aspects, thus creating an illustrative meaning of the term ‘future shock’ as an overwhelming moment of change. The book was authored in the 1970s when Toffler was documenting the changes that were caused by the introduction of the super-industrial phase. In reality, Toffler's prediction has been seen through the influx of technologies, such as the Internet, which have caused a series of changes. In the modern day, technology has been incorporated into every aspect of human living. For instance, the use of mobile phones has been affected by ...