Talk:Future Shock/Archives/2013

1970 article
Past versions of this page cite both Nature and Playboy as the publication in which Alvin Toffler published an article by the same name. Given that (1) the article index at Nature.com shows no articles published by Alvin Toffler in Nature, (2) The Economist mentioned that Alvin Toffler and his wife published in Playboy, and (3) the "Alvin & Heidi Toffler Papers" at Columbia University contain "Playboy Panels" , I suspect that the article was published in Playboy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcorson (talk • contribs) 17:30, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Controversial book
The first sentence says that Future Shock was a "controversial" book. This is sort of a generic thing that publicity agents like to put in advertisements designed to appeal to teenagers. The article doesn't give any reasons why the book should have been controversial. Shouldn't it be removed?

Music
In addition to the music noted within, The Hello People released the song "Future Shock" in 1974. It is widely recognized to be representative of the film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.219.124.65 (talk) 19:08, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

John Brunner
"Future Shock" is a theme discussed in the book "Stand on Zanzibar" from 1968, this is not mentioned. Perhaps, this little known winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th Science Fiction Convention in 1969 influenced Mr. Toffler's title and use of this term. Not appropriate to give invention/coining status to Mr. Toffler when it was published 2 years after Mr. Brunner'soriginal work. Thoughts... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.18.52.150 (talk) 13:58, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

psychological state
Although the term psychological state is used by the reference, our disambiguation at mental state does not cover the correct topic. This is an incorrect link. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 14:52, 19 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed. The mental state link is useless at best. Ronstew (talk) 21:35, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Sept.22 2013 edit
I moved the "pop-culture references" section down the page, which I believe is the proper spot for such pop culture lists, AFTER all the "facts". If anything, it may also be moveable once more to above the "Reprints" section, though I'll leave that to open. By the way: that whole section cites NO references, though lots of claims are made there! Thus, sorry, I felt compelled to add the "unreffed section" template.

I also shortened the section header resulting in "Development of society and production"; prior to that, the header read like a sentence: too LONG! Also changed the listed stages into prose. I also recommend the "Features of post-industrial society" section should be written out in prose, removing the paragraph bullets. I leave that open for future contributors too. Japanglish (talk) 03:05, 22 September 2013 (UTC)