Opening paragraphs.................

 In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary, psychologically sound people will face an abrupt collision with the future.  Citizen of the world's richest and most technologically advanced nations, many of them will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change that characterizes our time.  For them, the future will have arrived too soon.

-Alvin Toffler,  Future Shock (1970)

Ed. note:  first read this book about fifty years ago.  Young Brandon handed me a new copy of it today, thinking I might find value in it.  Early returns say he was correct.