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Future shock... The shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Alvin Toffler

1970

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Resistance to change Change

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1970

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Alvin Toffler

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Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock. Random House, 1970, introduction.

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