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Thanks for that.
> ----------
> From: Robert G. Grimes
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 4:56 pm
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Central questions of memetics
>
> Alvin Toffler was the one who wrote "Future Shock" ( "Power Shift" and
> others)
> and it was sort of ahead of its time. Later I wrote a paper on
> "Underwriting
> Future Shock" where I simply pointed out those diseases or conditions that
> were
> mortality or morbidity threatening as a result of future shock (from the
> subsequent stress of future shock) and I'm almost thinking of writing on
> on
> "Sensory Overload" oriented to the universal deluge of television,
> internet,
> printed media, etc., etc.
>
> Already the ability to correspond, narrate, discuss, etc., quickly to an
> almost
> limitless quantify and quality of audience through all of these media is
> providing us with almost overwhelming evidence of these effects (I
> suspect) on
> the behavior of our youth and society in general.
>
> Anyway, Toffler was one of the first "futurists" to go down this path but
> I'm
> sure that there have been periodic messages on similar themes during those
> periods when society experienced great innovations coupled with great
> innovative
> diffusion, i.e., written language, printing, steam engine, electrical
> communications, internal combustion engine, etc., etc...
>
> Also, I suspect that we are going to have another great adjustment with an
> imminent overwhelming biological disease (AIDs?) that will not respond to
> cheap
> therapy and that is fatal or overwhelming disabling. It is interesting to
> wonder if this is an evolutionary "adjustment" to our overwhelming
> population
> growth and abuse of our resources?
>
> Cordially,
>
> Bob
>
> Vincent Campbell wrote:
>
> > What was the name of that guy who came up with the notion of 'Future
> Shock'
> > in the 1960s? That's the same phenomenon that you're describing, and
> it's
> > also evident in modernism such as Munch and Kafka.
> >
>
> --
> Bob Grimes
>
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>
> Man is not in control, but the man who knows he is not in control is more
> in control...
>
> Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore....."
>
>
>
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