Missives from the 6th Floor

I picked Future Shock up off my reading pile after finishing Friedman's The World is Flat.

In retrospect, I'm not sure I would have chosen to read to books so similar had I really thought about it, but I didn't, so I did.

Future Shock was interesting - both as a backwards look at a forward looking text, (i.e. how much did he get "right" vs. "wrong") as well as for the content itself. It had more in common with The World is Flat than I expected it would - suggesting that the problems/phenomenon both authors were commenting on have longer lifespans than either necessarily recognized. (Ponder for a moment the implication of that statement, given that both works are preoccupied with the acceleration of the rate of change... The more things change...)

Friedman's writing flowed better for me, while there were bits of Toffler's writing that I had to slog through.

Worth reading, but I wouldn't necessarily bump it to the head of the queue.