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{{Short description|1970 book by Alvin Toffler}}
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| author            = [[Alvin Toffler]]
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| subject           = Social Sciences
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| country           = United States
| language          = English
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| publisher         = [[Random House]]
| release_date      = 1970
| media_type        = Print ([[Hardcover|hardback]] & [[paperback]])
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| isbn              = 0-394-42586-3
| isbn_note         = (original hardcover)
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| followed_by       = [[The Third Wave (Toffler book)|The Third Wave]]
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'''''Future Shock''''' is a 1970 book by American [[futurist]] [[Alvin Toffler]],<ref>{{cite journal|title=Alvin Toffler: still shocking after all these years - Interview|journal=New Scientist|date=19 March 1994|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14119173-500-alvin-toffler-still-shocking-after-all-these-years/}}</ref> written together with his wife Adelaide Farrell,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/obituaries/heidi-toffler-dead.html|title=Heidi Toffler, Unsung Force Behind Futurist Books, Dies at 89|last=Schneider|first=Keith|date=2019-02-12|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-01-08|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Future Shock at 40: What the Tofflers Got Right (and Wrong)|journal=Fast Company|date=15 October 2010|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1695307/future-shock-40-what-tofflers-got-right-and-wrong}}</ref> in which the authors define the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, and a personal [[perception]] of "too much change in too short a period of time". The book, which became an international bestseller,  has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely translated.

The book grew out of the article "The Future as a Way of Life" in [[Horizon (U.S. magazine)|''Horizon'' magazine]], Summer 1965 issue.<ref>Toffler, Alvin, "The Future as a Way of Life", Horizon magazine, Summer 1965, Vol VII, Num 3</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=September 8, 2013|title=For the love of reading: Horizon Magazine hardcover issues 1959 - 1977 table of contents|url=http://notearama.blogspot.com/2013/09/horizon-magazine-hardcover-issues-1959.html}}</ref><ref>Eisenhart, Mary, [http://www.yoyow.com/marye/tofflers94.html "Alvin And Heidi Toffler: Surfing The Third Wave: On Life And Work In The Information Age"], MicroTimes #118, January 3, 1994</ref><ref>[http://www.sociosite.net/topics/texts/toffler.php "Alvin Toffler: still shocking after all these years: New Scientist meets the controversial futurologist"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210084237/http://www.sociosite.net/topics/texts/toffler.php|date=2009-02-10}}, [[New Scientist]], 19 March 1994, pp. 22–25. "What led you to write Future Shock? – While covering Congress, it occurred to us that big technological and social changes were occurring in the United States, but that the political system seemed totally blind to their existence. Between 1955 and 1960, the [[Combined oral contraceptive pill|birth control pill]] was introduced, television became universalized, commercial jet travel came into being and a whole raft of other technological events occurred. Having spent several years watching the political process, we came away feeling that 99 per cent of what politicians do is keep systems running that were laid in place by previous generations of politicians. Our ideas came together in 1965 in an article called 'The future as a way of life', which argued that change was going to accelerate and that the speed of change could induce disorientation in lots of people. We coined the phrase 'future shock' as an analogy to the concept of culture shock. With future shock you stay in one place but your own culture changes so rapidly that it has the same disorienting effect as going to another culture"</ref>