Reddit reviews Future Shock

Alvin Toffler called this 45 years ago in "Future Shock". Too much choice is overwhelming, and people faced with it are often paralyzed rather than liberated with the amount of options they are faced with. Couple that with the logistics of having a store bloated with options, and you get the market pressure for something like Aldi.

Edit: Since this is getting attention, I would encourage who hasn't already to check out his book Future Shock. It's pretty incredible the stuff he was able to predict. Definitely changes the way I look at the modern world.

>>Sci-fi stands for science fiction, so... sci-re for science reality? Sci-non-fi? Maybe just sci.

Alvin Toffler came close with Future Shock.

But that doesn't quite capture what i'm after here, which is the element of not merely something new, but something you'd expect in sci-fi becoming actually real.

you should read Future Shock by Alvin Toffler. It'll give you predictions from 40 years ago or so, and then you can see for yourself what did or didn't happen.

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler suggests that in an era where media takes more and more of people's time, the generation gap grows more significant and generations grow closer together. That is, generation 4 and 5 are only five years apart, but have marked generational differences because their cultural identities are bound with the media they consumed at formative ages. Later, the gap between generations 5 and 6 is even fewer years, with even larger cultural differences.

Really underrated futurist.