EVER since I read 'Future Shock,' Alvin Toffler's 1970 book, I became enamored about the future. After all, that's where we shall spend the rest of our lives.

Toffler argued that there would be an enormous structural change from an industrial society to a 'super-industrial society.' He wrote that the accelerated rate of technological and social change would leave people 'disconnected and suffering from shattering stress and disorientation, or future shock. In 1970, Toffler predicted the emerging 'information overload' that we are now experiencing.