Later in the afternoon. You used your activity app for the first
time and it works well. There should be no problems with the new watch. You
have been running errands and had lunch at Panera. --> You are waiting for
Carol at the community center. - Amorella
1651 hours. I have spent some time
researching on and finally beginning a YouTube video tutorial on the watch.
This last a couple hours from the looks of it, but I'm sure it will be
productive. I am just happy that the first activity session worked so I get
credit for the 30+ minutes of exercises. I'm sure it has lots of bells and
whistles and I need to know which apps I want to keep and those I'll put to sleep.
Papa
John's pizza for supper as you watched the local and national news in real
time. You are tired and would just as soon go to bed but it is too early. -
Amorella
1908 hours. Earlier I was ready to
watch some of that YouTube video but I've lost interest. It is time to relax
and listen to some music and maybe do some reading online or otherwise.
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Future Shock
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Future Shock is a book written by the futurist Alvin
Toffler in 1970. In the book, Toffler defines the term "future shock"
as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. His
shortest definition for the term is a personal perception of "too much
change in too short a period of time". The book, which became an
international bestseller, grew out of an article "The Future as a Way of
Life" in Horizon magazine, Summer
1965 issue. The book has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely
translated.
Term
Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural
change, a revolution from an industrial society to a "super-industrial
society". This change overwhelms people. He believed the accelerated rate
of technological and social change left people disconnected and suffering from
"shattering stress and disorientation"—future shocked. Toffler stated
that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In his
discussion of the components of such shock, he popularized the term "information overload ."
His analysis of the phenomenon of information overload is
continued in his later publications, especially The Third Wave and Powershift. In the introduction to an essay entitled "Future
Shock" in his book, Conscientious Objections, Neil Postman wrote:
"Sometime about the middle of 1963, my colleague Charles
Weingartner and I delivered in tandem an address to the National Council of
Teachers of English. In that address we used the phrase "future
shock" as a way of describing the social paralysis induced by rapid
technological change. To my knowledge, Weingartner and I were the first people
ever to use it in a public forum. Of course, neither Weingartner nor I had the
brains to write a book called Future Shock, and all due credit goes to
Alvin Toffler for having recognized a good phrase when one came along"
(p. 162).
Development of society
and production
Alvin Toffler distinguished three stages in development of
society and production: agrarian, industrial and post-industrial.
The first stage began in the period of the Neolithic Era when
people invented agriculture, thereby passing from barbarity to a civilization. The
second stage began in England with the Industrial Revolution during which
people invented the machine tool and the steam engine. The third stage began in
the second half of the 20th century in the West when people invented automatic
production, robotics and the computer. The services sector attained great
value.
Toffler proposed one criterion for distinguishing between
industrial society and post-industrial society: the share of the population occupied
in agriculture versus the share of city labor occupied in the services sector.
In a post-industrial society, the share of the people occupied in agriculture
does not exceed 15%, and the share of city laborers occupied in the services
sector exceeds 50%. Thus, the share of the people occupied with brainwork
greatly exceeds the share of the people occupied with physical work in
post-industrial society.
Fear of the future
Alvin Toffler's main thought consists of the fact that modern
man feels shock from rapid changes. For example, Toffler's daughter went to
shop in New York City and she couldn't find a shop in its previous location.
Thus New York has become a city without a history. The urban population doubles
every 11 years. The overall production of goods and services doubles each 50
years in developed countries. Society experiences an increasing number of
changes with an increasing rapidity, while people are losing the familiarity
that old institutions (religion, family, national identity, profession) once
provided. The so-called "brain drain"– the emigration of European
scientists to the United States – is both an indicator of the changes in
society and also one of their causes.
Features of
post-industrial society
•
Many goods have become disposable as the cost of manual repair
or cleaning has become greater than the cost of making new goods due to mass
production. Examples of disposable goods include ballpoint pens, lighters,
plastic bottles, and paper towel.
•
•
The design of goods becomes outdated quickly. (And so, for
example, a second generation of computers appears before the end of the
expected period of usability of the first generation). It is possible to rent
almost everything (from a ladder to a wedding dress), thus eliminating the need
for ownership.
•
•
Whole branches of industry die off and new branches of industry
arise. This affects unskilled workers who are compelled to change their
residence to find new jobs. The constant change in the market also poses a
problem for advertisers who must deal with moving targets.
•
•
People of post-industrial society change their profession and
their workplace often. People have to change professions because professions
quickly become outdated. People of post-industrial society thus have many
careers in a lifetime. The knowledge of an engineer becomes outdated in ten
years. People look more and more for temporary jobs.
•
•
To follow transient jobs, people have become nomads. For
example, immigrants from Algeria, Turkey and other countries go to Europe to
find work. Transient people are forced to change residence, phone number,
school, friends, car license, and contact with family often. As a result,
relationships tend to be superficial with a large number of people, instead of
being intimate or close relationships that are more stable. Evidence for this
is tourist travel and holiday romances.
•
The
driver's license, received at age 16, has become the teenager's admission to the world of adults, because it
symbolizes the ability to move independently.
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and edited from Wikipedia
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1941 hours. At Escola Graduada de Sao
Paulo I began teaching a 'Futures Studies' unit, later I discovered from some
researchers working on doctorates Chicago that this was the first such unit
taught in Latin America. I felt good about it because by that time I had
developed the "Futures Studies/Science Fiction" class for juniors and
seniors at Indian Hill High School, and I had joined the World Future Society.
I talked my retired father-in-law, Dr. Granville S. Hammond into teaching such
a course at Sun City Center, which he did with great success. It was very cool
to have a father-in-law well interested in the World Future Society.
** **
We believe in uniting the architects of the future. We exist to
unite the futurist in everyone.
The World Future
Society
is the world’s premier community of future-minded citizens. A 501(c)(3)
organization founded in 1966, the organization is driven by three critical
objectives;
1)
Uniting people passionate about building their desired futures through
an ecosystem of members, chapters and partners.
2)
Advocating to bring to public awareness the world's major challenges. We
ignite the futurist mindset in those who no longer want to be bystanders.
3)
Building global labs where futurists of all types are able to produce
solutions, that are not solely reactive to the present, but to architect new
systems that make the broken ones obsolete.
Our
membership is made up of futurists of all types; entrepreneurs, executives,
forecasters, economists, scientists, students, parents, and conscious citizens.
We are united by our shared desire to tackle the world’s biggest challenges.
The future is yours to build.
1966
The World Future Society was founded in 1966
at a time of great uncertainty. The Cuban Missile Crisis, the production of
plutonium and the uncertainties of a society in transition, were at the
forefront of one innovator’s mind. Ed Cornish founded The World Future Society
to gather brilliant people to tackle the dangerous challenges of the time.
1980
By
1980, while the building blocks of the Internet were being established, over
7,000 people attended the World Future Society Summit in Toronto, including a
young Al Gore, and by then, Ed Cornish had been an advisor to three U.S.
Presidents. . . .
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and edited from - . . .wfsDOTorg/page/aboutus
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You
are showing another side of a nearly-life-long passion focused on humanity. -
Amorella
1956 hours. This comment is embarrassing
to me. I wish you had not stated this.
Is
it not true? - Amorella
1958 hours. I cannot say that because
it would be false.
2005 hours. It appears I am arrogant
either way I state my honest thoughts and reflections. There is a twist of dark
humor in this (which gives me a strangely deep sense of personal satisfaction).
2041 hours. I have been reading 'Quora'
online and I found a really good question and response. Here it is.
** **
How can the universe just start from nothing?
Neil
DeGrasse Tyson had a great explanation of it. The fact that our universe is so
(three-dimensionally) flat is proof it came from nothing. Because to be
perfectly flat, it must have zero net energy, meaning it didn’t take or give
off energy to be created.
Answered
by Ronny Biggs who studied at University of California, Los Angeles
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and rearranged from Quora dot com
** **
*2055 hours. Strange thought, Amorella. Interesting, but strange. Intriguing and still strange.
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