"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."
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"My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.“
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
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