Previews and Premises

Read to see if he predicted accurately what has come about. First noticeable absence, in the index - social media is not listed. In a sense, the rise of social media has invalidated many of his premises but as I have read Future Shock, Third Wave and Power Shift way back in the day, and this one was published in 1983 and the world has changed far more rapidly that he predicted and with fewer hopeful signs of it emerging unscathed. He warned in 1983 that our political systems were obsolete and would not be able to cope with the speed of change....today it is obvious that that was only too true and that those political systems spent the last decades devolving into crisis after crisis and lawlessness until they are all but unrecognizable. show more They refused to effect change and so change came unbidden and without intelligent organization. Tipping points are being reached all over the world on everything from economics, ecology, population growth, refugees and immigration and the list goes on. His books were a warning flag raised and ignored. show less