Future shock: a how-to guide for the new world disorder
A series of recently released books attempts to make sense of the extraordinary change and upheaval that have hit Australians over the past 18 months.
Scott Morrison, and his government, are struggling to navigate their way through a pandemic and a series of scandals. David Rowe
In 1970 American futurist Alvin Toffler published Future Shock. It’s a book about “too much change in too short a period of time”, according to the author. As things turned out, Toffler was half a century ahead of his time.
Over the course of just 18 months, our lives have been turned upside down. Devastating bushfires in Australia, millions perishing from COVID-19 around the world, a brutal, contagion-driven economic contraction; lockdowns and border closures; a public debt mountain; a titanic power struggle between the US and China; and an Australian gender relations crisis – all have commentators gasping for words.
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