Future Shock (1972) 4/5

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

See review here:
http://oddculture.com/weird-movies/movie-review-future-shock/

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.

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• Toffler
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• Welles
• paranoia
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• 70s

[krazygrrrl]

Perhaps Mr. Wells was the greatest doomsayer of all time!!!

[JoshSitar]

Oh my god. So it was Orson Welles, and NOT George W. Bush that started the whole "nucular" pronunciation of nuclear!!!

Listen carefully at 6:32 and at 6:37. He totally says "nucular".

[plastack]

"the consequences of what we do today...determines what tomorrow will bring"

[BeakyRed]

9:40 oh, so THATS why technology is being suppressed, its to reduce future shock...

i thought it was just because corporations wanted money or some shit but i respect them now

[exeuroweenie]

I don't think technology's the threat.It's how people misuse it,as they inevitably do-from Hiroshima/Nagasaki on down to texting while driving.

[journeyquest1]

I hope there will be lots of young Elizabeth Taylor's to go around.

[MrJacMac1986]

@james1200 heard that he was going to do the voice of Darth Vader b4 James Earl Jones got it

[cephal0p0d]

@terramortim

Of course you would. Because that's the narrative you're fed, and which you accept without question.

[kingalow1]

@8:45 explains our massive failure circa 2011

[cybersalad]

Despite all the doomsaying, this documentary was pretty optimistic about technology. Especially in the realms of AI and genetics--which we soon found were far more complicated puzzles to solve than we first thought.

[HalcyonicRepose]

Hmm, the technology could destroy us...

Read Disconnect by Devra Davis, maybe cellular technology isn't as safe as they say it is!

[terramortim]

@james1200 Regarding socialism, before it was called socialism, it had other names. It's not a new system, and Marx didn't come up with it. For example, the American colonies in the early 17th century were operated under a system virtually identical to communism. . . they just called it Feudalism. Same system, different name.