1. Little wonder the West is suffering from future shock.

2. Inaugurating an international convention ‘Advertising‘s Future Shock III‘, he said marketing executives and businessmen were always fascinated by the changing nature of the world around them.

3. "Against this background, the outlook for progress with structural reform has worsened, while the risk of a slow or inappropriate policy response to the recent gas price or any future shock has increased," she added.

4. Alvin Toffler, the author of the bestsellers "Future Shock" and "The Third Wave," predicted that special leisure consultants would be needed to help people cope with the extra time on their hands.

5. But the people in Somalia are saying "leave us alone...let us attend to our needs...let us resolve our problems our own way". The comparison is so stark across the two borders, the Ethiopian people who asked for liberty are denied their rights on the ground of "US geo–political interest", and across the border a people who welcome a theocratic regime are also denied their aspiration on the ground of the same "geo–political interest". Here it may be apt to introduce Alvin Toffler, who in his book "Future shock" said "I coined the term future shock to describe the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time...In the most rapidly changing environment to which man has ever been exposed, we remain pitifully ignorant of how the human animal copes." Tofflers remark about individuals applies to communities and nations as well.