Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-540) and index.
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Introduction -- Part one: The death of permanence -- The 800th lifetime -- The accelerative thrust -- The pace of life -- Part two: transience -- Things: the throw-away society -- Places: the new nomads -- People: the modular man -- Organization: the coming ad-hocracy -- Information: the kinetic image -- Part three: novelty -- The scientific trajectory -- The experience makers -- The fractured family -- Part four: diversity -- The origins of overchoice -- A surfeit of subcults -- A diversity of life styles -- Part five: the limits of adaptability -- Future shock: the physical dimension -- Future shock: the physical dimension -- Future shock: the psychological dimension -- Part six: strategies for survival -- Coping with tomorrow -- Education in the future tense -- Taming technology -- The strategy of social futurism.

Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change.