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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What remedy might the family have against the pressures of future culture?

2. What line will industries blur in the future, according to Toffler?

3. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?

4. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?

5. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does future shock manifest?

2. What is the effect of the economics of transience?

3. How will products and services be different in the new economy?

4. What is the effect of urbanization on relationships?

5. What is the effect of change within organizations on future society?

6. What is the modular man?

7. What does Toffler foresee in terms of exploring the ocean?

8. How does transience affect modern society?

9. What are the three characteristics of bureaucracy, in Toffler's account?

10. How is future shock different than culture shock?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Toffler a pessimist or a realist? Is it possible to call him an optimist, insofar as he diagnoses a problem and prescribes a course of action for treating it?

Essay Topic 2

How would you characterize Toffler's views in terms of our contemporary political dialogue? Which parties would Toffler be most sympathetic with, based on the ideas in Future Shock? What kind of political policies could Future Shock be used to support?

Essay Topic 3

Was the change from industrialism to super-industrialism qualitative or quantitative? Is there a substantive difference between industrialism and super-industrialism, or are they merely different in the speed of the change?

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