..."future shock" is a phenomenon called "o verchoi ce.' He described the matter as follows: Ironically, the people of the future may suffer not from an absence...choice, but from a paralyzing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice (p. 264). Toffler indicated...

...violence may accompany what he described as the death of permanence and the substitution of transcience and novelty for familiar psychological cues." At another...may suffer not from an absence of choice, but from a parslyzinç surfeit of it; they may experience what he has termed over-choice without the personal...

...mystic, Jacques Ellul." 45 Toffler says that Ellul warns of an absence of choice but that, "ironically, the people of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice, but from a paralyzing surfeit of it." 4 * His example is "Design-a-Mustang," one of the most popular models of automobile ever made. We can...

...Brother took hold. Yet, counter to the conventional wisdom of the time, Toffier wrote: Ironically, the people of the future may suffer not from an absence...choice, but from a paralyzing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be the victims of that peculiar super-industrial dilemma: overchoice. 2 Only now is it...

...subordinates tend to be stronger and more selfreliant people than their more authoritarian colleagues. 5. The people of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice, but from a paralyzing surfeit of it. 6. Left untreated, gingivitis can lead all too easily to periodontitis. Which means that the gums recede...

...vgl. vergleiche Vol. Volume (Jahrgang) z. B. zum Beispiel z. T. zum Teil Ironically, the people of Ihe future may suffer not from an absence of choice, but from a paralyzing surfeil of it. Toffler, 1 97 1, S. 264. l Einleitung 1.1 Einführung in die Problemstellung 1.1.1 Positionierung...