future shock
Rapid change disorientation
Future shock is the disorientation and stress caused by rapid social and technological change.
Coined by Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book of the same name, the term describes the psychological toll of adapting to a world that transforms faster than humans can comfortably process: The constant stream of new apps and platforms left her in a state of future shock.
- technostressAnxiety from technology demands
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- information overloadExcess data impeding comprehension
- worryTroubled mental state
- sensory overloadExcessive simultaneous stimulation
rapid change · too much too fast · keeping up · disorientation · accelerationism · silver tsunami · artificial intelligence · automation · cultural evolution · dystopia · existential dread · digital transformation · paradigm shift · obsolescence · demographic shifts · post-apocalyptic fiction · biotechnology · speculative fiction
- technophobiatechnophobia, cyberphobia, AI fear, privacy concerns, Luddism
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- cryosleepcryo pod, cryo chamber, stasis pod, cryogenic freezing, cold sleep
- shocksanaphylaxis, electroshock, aftershock
future shocknostalgia
Longing for the past
traditionalism · pastoralism · antiquarianism · primitivism · ancestor worship
future shockadaptability
Ability to adjust readily
technophilia · futurism · neophilia · techno-utopianism · equanimity
future shockstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
changelessness · inertia · status quo · arrested development · stability
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