Abstract
Long ago, in another time and place, in another world really, Alvin Toffler published a prescient book entitled Future Shock (1970). Toffler outlined the trauma, disorientation and stress that would affect individuals and societies as a result of ‘too much change in too short a period of time’, in particular, the accelerated pace of technological change and the concomitant information overload.
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Murray, J. (2016). Educating Citizen Scholars: Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminars at the University of Guelph. In: Arvanitakis, J., Hornsby, D.J. (eds) Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of Higher Education. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137538697_4
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