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Dagwood222@lemm.ee āØ17ā© āØhoursā© agoRead a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. āFuture shockā was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldnāt/wouldnāt deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl āØ13ā© āØhoursā© ago
Iām reading it right now. I still canāt believe that a 55-year-old book could still describe aspects of my life to such accuracy!
Dagwood222@lemm.ee āØ13ā© āØhoursā© ago
It gets even worse.
He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunnerās book, "Stand On Zanzibarā won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. Itās set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.
bookshop.org/p/books/ā¦/7252770?ean=9781250781222&ā¦
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl āØ12ā© āØhoursā© ago
Now Iāll have to read that too. Thanks!
Dagwood222@lemm.ee āØ10ā© āØhoursā© ago
One more thingā¦