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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 does Toffler foresee with regard to the oceans?

2. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?

3. How does Toffler describe future shock?

4. How do the social experiences Toffler defines register the development of culture?

5. What does Toffler call the worker in the new organization?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does transience affect modern society?

2. How does Toffler say commuting has affected the future society?

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

4. How is future shock different than culture shock?

5. Describe the importance of the automobile in the super-industrial society.

6. How will super-industrialism affect the family?

7. How has home-relocation affected the future society?

8. What does Toffler foresee in the technology of fertility treatments?

9. How does the rate of change affect professionals?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Toffler's relationship with Marxist thought and the inequality that drives capitalist society? Is he blind to economic culture? How does he account for the differences between social classes?

Essay Topic 2

How does future shock apply differently to different populations? Do women have a different experience of future shock than men? Do blacks have a different experience than whites or Hispanics or Asians?

Essay Topic 3

What objections could be made to Toffler's suggestions for methods of remedying or preventing or mitigating the accelerative thrust? What would likely occur if his prescriptions were followed? What would the benefits be? What adverse effects might there be?

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