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Claude posted an update 6 years, 8 months ago
not new but..
Future Shock’ is a documentary film based on the book written
in 1970 by sociologist and futurist Alvin Toffler. Released in 1972, nthis piece of futurism is darkly dystopian and oozing techno-paranoia.
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If 1970s Britain was “shocking”, what would he have said today?
Thanks for posting this… this has been a question vexing me for a few years, i.e., why has there been no major studies on this exponentially fast paced change and the “affects” and consequences on humans. I actually have a book of Toffler’s The Third Wave in my library (unread of course) so perhaps I have been looking in the wrong places. The Industrial age was one thing, but the “shock” of the 20th c. is quite another and it’s affects on humans, I mean in a hundred years we went from horse and buggy to transhumanism and exploring deep space…the closest thing I came to this type of research was a book by Sven Birkerts The Guttenberg Elegies and the affect and consequences of the technotronic age that he saw coming down the pike, and it’s a very insightful work.
Thank you for your answer and the book by Sven Birkerts The Guttenberg Elegies that I am looking forward going to read.
My humble opinion about the humanity now, is that we as human are losing precisely the humanity
We are cutting ourselves off our humanism and are lured toward a more selfish and colder technologic world.
In this fast-evolving world, we have lost any benchmark boundaries and this has allowed to have a slack and elastic view on the good and the evil.
We supposedly have to adapt, be resilient to whatsoever is dictated by the high-tech industries
We do not know anymore what the word intrinsic value means
Everything is relative to something; hence, you can go deeper the lower bound
We are mixing up reality and illusion
It is a world that has been contaminated by the financialization of everything and humans are seen as tradable commodities.
It has opened the door for all kind of distortions and excesses and when you allow to hand over free money to uncontrolled and unknown entities that can invest it whatever they like the result is that the insane is looking as good as sanity
We are thrilled of the perspective transhumanism looking only at the bright side of it
We do not want to look at the disastrous side effects and are not able or allowed to ask questions about these effects
I agree…we’ve traded reality for the ersatz imitation.