BULACAN STATE UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOL

BOOK REVIEW
A LY S S A M A R I E F. A N A S TA C I O
PHD-EM
 ALVIN TOFFLER
Alvin Toffler was an American writer and futurist, known
for his works discussing the digital revolution,
communications revolution, corporate revolution and
technological singularity. A former associate editor of
Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology
and its impact (through effects like information overload.
 THE DEATH OF
This is a book about what
PERMANENCE
happens to people when
they are overwhelmed by
TRANSIENCE
change. Its is about the
ways in which we adapt or
NOVELTY fail to adapt to the future.

DIVERSITY

THE LIMITS OF STRATEGIES OF

ADAPTABILITY SURVIVAL
THIRD WAVE
ALVIN TOFFLER

THE FIRST WAVE OF CHANGE

THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

TOOK THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO PLAY
ITSELF.

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THIRD WAVE
ALVIN TOFFLER

THE SECOND WAVE

THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL
CIVILIZATION

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THIRD WAVE
ALVIN TOFFLER

THE THIRD WAVE

THE DAWN OF THIS NEW
CIVILIZATION
IDEOLOGY

FROM
TO
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
SUPER-INDUSTRIAL
SOCIETY
IDEOLOGY

SHATTERING DISORIENTATION
STRESS
SUPER-IDEOLOGY
NEOLITHIC ERA
SUPER-IDEOLOGY
NEOLITHIC ERA
SUPER-IDEOLOGY
NEOLITHIC ERA
SUPER-IDEOLOGY
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
SUPER-IDEOLOGY
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
SUPER-IDEOLOGY
INFORMATION ERA
 FUTURE SHOCK - ORGANIZATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Future shock occurs in organizations when employees are unable to adapt to

the ongoing, rapid changes in customers, economics, and technology. While
intellectually acceptable, the sudden and dramatic change in our client's
business strategy was too much for them emotionally.
 STATUS OF THE PHILIPPINES
VULNERABILITIES Poverty
sectors were left behind such as reinvigorate job creation and poverty
transport, accommodations and reduction by steering the economy
other related services, mining, real back on the high-growth path and
estate and manufacturing, which all more importantly, effect economic
had outputs still below their transformation for a prosperous,
prepandemic performance. inclusive and resilient society.
 OWN PERCEPTION
• THANKS TO TECHNOLOGY: Instead of requiring humans to perform
repetitive tasks, companies are now able to accommodate personal
preferences.
• Future shock is a temporal phenomena brought on by how quickly society is
changing. It results from the imposition of a fresh culture on an established
one. Culture shock occurs within one's own society.
• “This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching upon our
heads and most people are gro tesquely unprepared to cope with it.”
SPOLARIUM - JUAN LUNA
 OBJECTIVES OF THE PAINTING
• TO AWAKEN FILIPINOS FROM

BLINDNESS
OPPRESSION

IGNORANCE
MENTAL
DARKNESS
 BEHAVIOR OF THE PAINTING

INJUSTICE

HELPLESSNES
CRUELTY S
SUFFERINGS
SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE THE PAINTING

More on nationalistic symbolism that helped

rouse the Filipinos to rise up against the political
oppression of our Spanish colonizers.
THANK YOU