Future Shock

In 1970, American futurist Alvin Toffler’s iconic work ”Future Shock” was published. One year later, a translation by Zhiwen Publishing House hit the market in Taiwan, thus introducing the writer’s theories to the Chinese readers. The premise of the book can be summed up as: “A future that comes too quickly creates more apprehension than that of a foreign land. Future society will be stricken with a plethora of choices, thrown-away society, information overload, and unethical technology.”