Alvin Toffler's Future Shock

In 1970, Alvin Toffler was fearful of a world where people were overrun by technology, unable to adapt to the cyber-climate of their own creation. Toffler published a book entitled "Future Shock", and in it described that, as a human race, we were evolving technology too quickly for our minds to catch up with. But has the time of future shock subsided in light of the 21st century? Some believe that we have been overrun by our own inventions, but my studies have told me that this might not be completely true.
Future Shock, in my personal definition, is the inability to function properly due to the over activity of technology in our lives. It can be described as "techno-stress", "information overload", or "internet anxiety." It includes symptoms that are just as much physical as they are mental. These symptoms include not only eye strain, back aches, depression, insomnia, but also the inability to multitask, or even being able to adapt to social environments. Quick loss of focus is a major topic in the Future Shock topic. Technology is seen as a distraction, and is …show more content…
They told me that they felt just fine moving from one task to another, without having a stutter in their thoughts. This information is ironic, because the information previously stated was that the ability to multitask was a myth; a thing in the past. Multitasking was left behind in the technological dust. But the students I asked said that they felt more comfortable with multitasking then they did when they were soling focusing on a single task. They felt like they got more work done while multitasking then they did when they were just focusing on one thing. I believe that because of technology, we are learning how to juggle more in our lives more efficiently. We can handle all the aspects of our lives, which include the scholastic, working and social