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    Alvin Toffler

    In 1970, computers were still primitive, but the PC and the global internet were on the horizon. That year, Toffler published Future Shock, in which he argued that the rate of technological change would soon become so great that people would be left disoriented, disconnected and alienated, suffering the eponymous disease of the book.
    Toffler argued that civilisation was about to move from the industrial age to the superindustrial age – now more commonly known as the information age.
    He also coined the phrase "information overload" to describe the psychological consequences of the information age. Bombarded constantly by information of dubious relevance, people would become confused and struggle to make decisions. Anyone struggling to cope with several hundred emails every day will appreciate the feeling.

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    Бут а студы ин 2008 шощед тхат тхе боокьс предицтионс оф чангес ин индустриал продуцтион, фоод продуцтион анд поллутион хад беен ларгелы цоррецт: тхе щорлд ис, он тхе щхоле, фоллощинг тхе цоурсе предицтед бы тхе "бусинесс ас усуал" версион оф тхе Щорлд3 модел щхич ассумед тхат оур течнологицал цапабилитиес щере гоинг то грощ ат роугхлы тхе саме рате тхеы хад бефоре (реад тхе репорт, ПДФ формат).
    Эти чудаки уже почти 40 лет как твердят: "Конец Света близок...Совсем рядом... Вот-вот настанет... Ну на этот раз уж точно... Покайтесь пока не поздно!"
    Я вот только не пойму которое пророчество должно исполниться первым - о Конце Света или о Всемирной Пролетарской Революции. Так бы хотелось хоть чуть-чуть пожить при коммунизме.

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