Describes some of the problems our technology has created for society and suggests some strategies for coping in the future.

Introduction -- Part one. The death of permanence. The 800th lifetime - The accelerative thrust - The pace of life -- Part two. Transience. Things: the throw-away society - Places: the new nomads - People: the modular man - Organization: the coming ad-hocracy - Information: the kinetic image -- Part three. Novelty. The scientific trajectory - The experience makers - The fractured family -- Part four: diversity. The origins of overchoice - A surfeit of subcults - A diversity of life styles -- Part five. The limits of adaptability. Future shock: the physical dimension - Future shock: the psychological dimension -- Part six. Strategies for survival. Coping with tomorrow - Education in the future tense - Taming technology - The strategy of social futurism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.