Future Shock (1972)Stream and Watch Online

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Released February 22nd, 1972, 'Future Shock' stars Orson Welles, James McGaugh, Alvin Toffler The movie has a runtime of about 43 min, and received a user score of 47 (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from 9 top users.

Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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 isnt 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 postindustrial 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" .