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Replying to @notjessewalker
THE THIRD WAVE—one of those books that made a big mark on me in my teens, so I'll forgive the big flaws that are obvious to me in adulthood.
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Replying to @notjessewalker
I liked POWERSHIFT when it came out too, though I was starting to look askance at the sweeping futurist style by then.
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Replying to @notjessewalker
I never did read FUTURE SHOCK. I wrote a bit about a film based on it here: http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/08/friday-av-club-orson-welles-apocalyptic … (Not the same thing, I know.)
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Replying to @notjessewalker
Anyway. There always was more meat to the Tofflers' books than there was to, say, MEGATRENDS. Or than there was to Toffler-via-Gingrich.
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Replying to @notjessewalker
Agree. Future Shock is also not a bad book -- not scholarship but not schlock either. The higher journalism.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I'm under the impression that it's more pessimistic than their later books. But maybe that's just true of the film?
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I read it as a teen so memories are fuzzy but I think it wasn't too pessimistic. More about needing to adapt to change.
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