The “Future Shock” Effect

“Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler is not actually fiction but I can’t resist posting this in the “Prophetic Fiction” category. What I am wondering though is if others can see as I do in the example of this 1972 documentary that the rapid development of many previously advancing technologies have been in effect virtually arrested?

Humanity’s Arrested Developement

Most often it is specifically those advancements that would empower the individual that tend to get suppressed and it goes waaaaaay back. When trying to figure out why so many things are so wrong in this world, isn’t this what it’s really all about? Think “Edison vs Tesla”…
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