In reflecting on the the book Future Shock, published in 1970, NPR saliently states:
“What Future Shock got right was that it made a compelling argument for taking the acceleration of change seriously,” Candy says. And he says the value of the book was to teach people that the best defense against the future is to think about it, to imagine different scenarios, and try to avoid being taken by surprise.
It sounds like a Future Ready formula to me!
I thought, having grown up with the idea of future shock, that I’d be immune to it. Fat chance! Even knowing from the age of 12 or so that change would not only happen, but would accellerate, it’s going so fast now that I can’t keep up. We’re all going to have to start breaking off pieces of life to keep track of, and let the rest surge past us.
The pace of change is speeding up. And it feels really hectic most days. There has been quite a few articles on information overload; that there is no such thing as multi-tasking you are just jumping from topic to topic to topic; and stress. We need more editors and curators for sense-making.