future shock

future shock
1. physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
2. any overload of a person's or an organization's capacity for adaptation or decision making.
[on the model of CULTURE SHOCK; popularized by a book of the same title (1970) by Alvin Toffler (b. 1928), U.S. journalist]

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