SOURCE: Hayes, E. Nelson. “Anticipatory Democracy.” New Leader 53, no. 19 (19 October 1970): 19-20.

In the following review, Hayes compares Future Shock to two other books about the impact of technology on the future—Technopolis by Nigel Calder and Between Two Ages by Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Ours has been variously called the age of protest, the postindustrial society, the electric age, the technetronic society, technopolis, the global village, the superindustrial society, postcivilization. These and other such terms suggest that we should perhaps prefer Auden's phrase, the age of anxiety. For in scores of books now appearing that attempt to define, describe and interpret our times, there is a terrifying sense that we are undergoing a profound revolution whose nature we do not understand and whose future we fear.

Three of the above terms are from the books at hand. British science-writer Nigel Calder [author of Technopolis] believes technopolis is already upon us...