I think you can think of reading book like Alwin Tofler's Future Shock.
It was published nearly 50 years back but it challenges and informs you in various ways.
It captures what is happening around right now way back then.
It focuses on the rapid pace of change and development happening with the help of path-breaking technology.
He traces the way new breakthroughs came slowly in the past and the speed with which new breakthroughs have come in the last 100 years or so has been breathtaking.
He gives examples from breakthroughs in all different domains such as transportation, book publishing and what not. For instance, he gives an example of time taken to invent the first aero-plane and what its speed was. Since then, the new inventions that revolutionized the plan speed is stunning. The pace at which these developments have happened is something most people seem to have missed. This is why he has chosen to write on the subject.
His focus is on the rapidity of change that most people talk about but do not understand in concrete terms. So he cites numbers and data points at every stage of the books. These numbers appear mind-boggling when you come to think of it.
The book challenges you to imagine how we evolved as a society and the rapidity of change that has marked our history. It also challenges us to imagine what the future would look like.
The book informs us about the history, present and future and what connects all three- change.
It's worth a read. Do explore it.
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