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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 is the result of too much change?

2. What does Toffler say is just as harmful as planning for the future?

3. What is technology based on in the West, in Toffler's account?

4. Where else does Toffler see evidence of the psychology of over-stimulation?

5. What ability is compromised by too much change?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Toffler say super-industrialism has affected education?

2. What is entailed in changing a lifestyle?

3. What will the consequence be if new technologies are not controlled?

4. What is the role of the lifestyle in super-industrial culture?

5. How will morals change in a super-industrial culture?

6. What will the place of enclaves be in future society?

7. What will planners need to have in order to make an education system that prepares people for the future?

8. How does change affect people's health?

9. What does Toffler say people need to do in order to deal with the coming future?

10. What is the danger of change in a super-industrial culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is "the tradition" Toffler refers to? Pre-industrial Europe? Medieval Europe? Pre-contact North America? Greece and Rome? When were things simpler, and when does Toffler say they changed? What brought about the change?

Essay Topic 2

How new is the concept of future shock, and is it unique to our time? Weren't people 2,500 years ago experiencing future shock as the transition to agriculture was made? Weren't people 250 years ago experiencing future shock when the transition to industrialism was made? What makes the 1970s different and unique?

Essay Topic 3

When is the starting date for super-industrial culture? What event marks its inception? Where did it start and under what conditions? Where is it still emerging? Where are people fighting its emergence? What methods have they used to fight it?

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