The purpose of this research is to examine Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, which deals with the manner in which the world is moving progressively toward a future that no one can fully control and few can even partly predict. In large part, this derives from the technological revolution and from the manner in which technology feeds upon itself, resulting in an even faster pace of technological change and development (27-28). The Rip Van Winkle-like effect of constantly finding oneself in a world that has changed in many ways since it was last examined is what the concept of future shock is all about.

This is not to say that Toffler has written a book that deals exclusively with technology. To a great extent, technology is merely the catalyst with regard to the changing roles each of us play in society in the course of our daily lives. As Toffler …