Future Shock (1972) 1/5

This is a little known documentary based on the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.

See review here:
http://oddculture.com/weird-movies/mo...

This movie came out in 1972 and features Orson Welles as the narrator. I was most amused by the high amount of paranoia in regards to the future... some of the segments (like people choosing their own skin color) are downright hilarious. Worth a look - at the very least for its historical value.

As far as I can tell, this documentary is in the public domain.

Part 1 of 5

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  Film & Animation

[RichardPresley]

So funny that we live in a much more accelerated rate of change and barely notice it compared to what they document here. I remember watching this in school and being impressed with the technology. Now I've got more power in my cell phone than anything in this movie. For that matter, I could make a better documentary with my cell phone than this is.

[hessdx1]

Heed Orson ! Effective old school film making... love it !

[rickyblount2007]

Yeah, witness the current "digital divide."

[DumpYourTelevision]

and the alarm bells were obviously ignored....

(in p5 you would get that)

[vanillaexplosion99]

We are not transforming but miniaturizing mostly today. If you had studied the history of technology you would know this. The progress curve has slowed since the 70's. A small example of a complex subject:The progress of flight from 1940 propeller aircraft to 30 years later landing on the moon.). Compare aeronautics today to 1983 30 years before? That much of a gain as 1940 till 1969? No I think not. And there is myriad of other examples for I have so few characters left for a complex subject.

[Metamusik]

I get the point, but get your shit straight: nobody ever called MP3 an advancement in quality, it's an advancement in portability and storage... hopefully it'll give way to loss-less compression like FLAC. Furthermore, arguing there's been no worthwhile developments in the realm of culture since the 70's is as dumb as claiming everything older then 10 years is obsolete by default.

[Metamusik]

Have you lost your mind? The soundtrack is awesome.

[zhukhov]

Well, evolution is an ancient theory and goes back to the times of the pagan Greeks at least. Some scholars say the Greeks got their ideas from the ancient Egyptians. But who really know?

[ellen bla bla]

in, cast away those that she nurtures loves and cares for... all for the benefit of earning a buck. I still shake my head... sad sad times

[ellen bla bla]

I cried the first I read of marketing scheme to condition little girls to the notion of change by giving her incentive to trade in her doll for a newer model .... my babydoll that my mother bought for me at Maus Brothers Department store was very expensive beautiful and loved. She now resides permantly on the top shelf of a oak cabnet in my mothers house. My mother is now in a nursing home suffering dementia.. and I am 44. I cannot imagine what benefit comes from conditioning women to trade

[ellen bla bla]

it's not culture ... It's those social engineers that audaciously have taken it upon themselves to manage society... humans and their surrounding environment...

[Instalink]

Better? First off who is better than Orsen Wells. What would he be worth today?