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Comments on FUTURE SHOCK

C. P. Snow: "Remarkable ... No one ought to have the nerve to pontificate on our present

worries without reading it."

R. Buckminster Fuller: "Cogent ... brilliant ... I hope vast numbers will read Toffler's

book."

Betty Friedan: "Brilliant and true ... Should be read by anyone with the responsibility of

leading or participating in movements for change in America today."

Marshall McLuhan: "FUTURE SHOCK ... is 'where it's at.'"

Robert Rimmer, author of The Harrad Experiment: "A magnificent job ... Must reading."

John Diebold: "For those who want to understand the social and psychological

implications of the technological revolution, this is an incomparable book."

WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Explosive ... Brilliantly formulated."

LONDON DAILY EXPRESS: "Alvin Toffler has sent something of a shock-wave

through Western society."

LE FIGARO: "The best study of our times that I know ... Of all the books that I have read

in the last 20 years, it is by far the one that has taught me the most."

THE TIMES OF INDIA: "To the elite ... who often get committed to age-old institutions

or material goals alone, let Toffler's FUTURE SHOCK be a lesson and a warning."

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN: "An American book that will ... reshape our thinking even

more radically than Galbraith's did in the 1950s ... The book is more than a book, and it

will do more than send reviewers raving ... It is a spectacular outcrop of a formidable,

organized intellectual effort ... For the first time in history scientists are marrying the

insights of artists, poets, dramatists, and novelists to statistical analysis and operational

research. The two cultures have met and are being merged. Alvin Toffler is one of the

first exhilarating, liberating results."

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: "Packed with ideas, explanations, constructive

suggestions ... Revealing, exciting, encouraging, brilliant."

NEWSWEEK: "In the risky business of social and cultural criticism, there appears an

occasional book that manages—through some happy combination of accident and

insight—to shape our perceptions of its times. One thinks of America in the 1950s, for

example, largely in terms of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd and John Kenneth

Galbraith's The Affluent Society, while Michael Harrington's The Other America helped

focus the concerns of the early 1960s. And now Alvin Toffler's immensely readable yet

disquieting study may serve the same purpose for our own increasingly volatile world:

even before reading the book, one is ready to acknowledge the point of the title—that we

suffer from 'future shock.'"