580 pages - from Newsweek: In the risky business of social and cultural criticism, there appears and occasional book that manages - through some happy combination of accident and insight - to shape our perceptions of its times. One thinks of America in the 1950s, for example, largely in terms of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd and John Kenneth Galbraiths's The Affluent Society, while Michael Harrington's The Other America helped focused the concerns of the early 1960s. And now Alvin Toffler's immensely readable yet disquieting study may serve tohe same purpose for our own increasingly volatile world; even before reading the book, one is ready to acknowledge the point of the title - that we suffer from 'future shock.' Notes: - also available here