Meaning of future shock | Babel Free

Definitions

A sense of being unable to cope with a large amount of societal or technological change that has taken place in a relatively short time.

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Examples

“And of course, future shock and death-wish encroachment eventually got everyone, especially on advanced planets. Deep down, deep down, we all want to die.”

“GPT-4 […] exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I’ve been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately. And it has made me wonder whether that feeling will ever fade, or whether we’re going to be experiencing “future shock” — the term coined by the writer Alvin Toffler for the feeling that too much is changing, too quickly — for the rest of our lives.”

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