From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 11:11:55 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Future Shock would only occur, if a fully developed technology, came
> springing, as Athena did, from the head of Zeus, to a neighborhood or
> a drive-in, near you.
>
> Toffler greatly underestimated the capacity of the humans to adjust to
> change.
Perhaps you should pay attention to the incoherrence of many people's
actions outside of their main focus of attention.
If you said that people didn't notice the changes, I'd agree with you, but the adjustment to changes appears to be becomming more and more tightly focused, with little to no global perspective at all.
I suppose that you could say that in an old small town there wasn't any global perspective, but that's not the meaning I was after. I didn't mean geographically, but rather all encompassing in a multitude of dimensions. And that they did have. Biased, perhaps, but they at least had an adaptive awareness.
-- -- Charles Hixson Gnu software that is free, The best is yet to be.
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