Future Shock author Alvin Toffler passed away

Q.  Whose book “Future Shock” has anticipated disruptions and transformations brought by digital technology?
- Published on 01 Jul 16

a. Alvin Toffler
b. Carl Sagan
c. John Grisham
d. Somerset Maugham

ANSWER: Alvin Toffler
 
Alvin Toffler, a guru of the post industrial age whose Future Shock and other books were linked to disruptions and transformations bought about by the rise of digital technology passed away at the age of 87.
  • He was known as one of the top futurists in the United States
  • "Future Shock", a term he first used in a 1965 magazine article, was how Toffler defined the growing feeling of anxiety brought on by the sense that life was changing at a bewildering and ever-accelerating pace.
  • His book combined an understanding tone and page-turning urgency as he diagnosed contemporary trends and headlines, from war protests to the rising divorce rate, as symptoms of a historical cycle overturning every facet of life.

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