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单词 future shock
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Definition of future shock in English:

future shock

noun
mass noun

  • A state of distress or disorientation due to rapid social or technological change.

    未来冲击（由于快速的社会或技术变革使人产生的忧虑感或无所适从的感觉）

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The term future shock became part of the culture.
    • Once again the film relies on special effects mixed with violence and black humour to tell its teeth-rattling tale of future shock.
    • Hip-Hop Lives revels in being the future shock for the old underground B-boy standard.
    • In fact, you can take advantage of the future shock to carry the idea.
    • This is as much future shock as it is headphone candy - ominous, despairing but uplifting and liberating.
    • Is the Internet going to make future shock worse?
    • Third, he describes psycho-social phenomena weighing heavily on Yolngu arising from ‘culture shock, future shock and the multigenerational legacy of past trauma’.
    • Or, in the words of Alvin Toffler, ‘Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.’
    • You've just convinced us a minute ago that these substances dropped the advance guard against future shock on the heart, why would they be causing protection?
    • Surprisingly, this year's conference provided little in the way of future shock, but it still managed to be one of the most satisfying in years.
    • The second section of Checklist 1 we think of as risks of future shock.
    • For him, this film represents the polar opposite of traditional future shock.

Origin

1970s: popularized by the 1970 book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1928–2016).

Definition of future shock in US English:

future shock

noun

  • A state of distress or disorientation due to rapid social or technological change.

    未来冲击（由于快速的社会或技术变革使人产生的忧虑感或无所适从的感觉）

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Is the Internet going to make future shock worse?
    • The term future shock became part of the culture.
    • Third, he describes psycho-social phenomena weighing heavily on Yolngu arising from ‘culture shock, future shock and the multigenerational legacy of past trauma’.
    • Once again the film relies on special effects mixed with violence and black humour to tell its teeth-rattling tale of future shock.
    • Surprisingly, this year's conference provided little in the way of future shock, but it still managed to be one of the most satisfying in years.
    • Or, in the words of Alvin Toffler, ‘Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.’
    • You've just convinced us a minute ago that these substances dropped the advance guard against future shock on the heart, why would they be causing protection?
    • In fact, you can take advantage of the future shock to carry the idea.
    • For him, this film represents the polar opposite of traditional future shock.
    • The second section of Checklist 1 we think of as risks of future shock.
    • This is as much future shock as it is headphone candy - ominous, despairing but uplifting and liberating.
    • Hip-Hop Lives revels in being the future shock for the old underground B-boy standard.

Origin

1970s: popularized by the 1970 book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1928–2016).
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