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It was probably Alvin Toffler who first suggested the source of our discomfort with change. He noted that it was not change itself but rather its increasing speed that troubled us—which is to say, we are unnerved not so much by the velocity as by the acceleration.
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Ramakrishnan, N. (2013). Prologue: A World at Sea. In: Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325150_1
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