SOURCE: Kelly, James R. “What's the World Coming To?” America 124, no. 1 (9 January 1971): 24-5.

In the following review, Kelly offers a positive assessment of Future Shock, praising the work for its reflection on “the human condition of change.”

Do you generally feel harassed, confused, irritable? Do you often have that panicky sense that things are slipping out of control? And despite your most valiant efforts to be up-to-date, do you find your left eye nervously twitching when your parish priest announces his engagement?

Well, relax a bit. On the assumption that misery suffered alone is plain awful, but that shared misery approaches the salvific, you will be encouraged to learn that your affliction is no longer mysterious nor do you suffer alone. In Alvin Toffler's words [in Future Shock], you and I, and anyone else retaining a smidgen of consciousness, suffer from “future shock,” the “dizzying disorientation brought on...