Future Shock

Synopsis

“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress. And with all our sophistication we are in fact, the victims of our own technological strength. We are the victims of shock … of future shock.” No, this isn’t a quote from a Huffington Post column on the Facebookization of modern communication. Nor is it pulled from an academic treatise on the phenomenologies of post-industrial existence. This statement was made by Orson Welles in the 1972 futurist documentary Future Shock, and, unlike some of the more dated elements of 1970s educational films, Future Shock remains shockingly current in verbalizing the concerns and anxieties that come along with rapid societal and technological change. (Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive)

Main Cast

Orson Welles

Narrator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 84%

James McGaugh

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Alvin Toffler

Himself

Age : 87 | Popularity : 1%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Alexander Grasshoff
Sound	Original Music Composer	Gil Mellé
Writing	Book	Alvin Toffler
	Writer	Ken Rosen
Editing	Editor	David Newhouse
Camera	Director of Photography	Vilis Lapenieks
Production	Executive Producer	Charles W. Fries
	Associate Producer	Karl Schanzer
	Production Manager	Joe Wonder
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