Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.