Do you remember Alvin Toffler with his Future Shock? He argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a "super-industrial society". This change overwhelms people, he believed, the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaving people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation"— future shocked. Toffler stated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In his discussion of the components of such shock he popularized the term "information overload." For 1970, it was considered revolutionary. Dear Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt (and actual Executive Chairman), the same with the guy who told Wall Street Journal: "Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites", retracting it short after that : "It was a joke, it just wasn’t very good". He also has some other notable pearls, he has a Messianic complex, like Bono: "We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about. " "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be … [Read more...]
