When the Future Was Yesterday
Jack Kinsella – Rapture Ready
As already noted, Toffler’s book was published the same year as Hal Lindsey’s Late, Great Planet Earth. Toffler’s book explained future shock as a social symptom. Hal’s book explained what future shock was a symptom OF. The prevailing feeling of impending doom that existed in the early 1970s was real enough that both books were instant runaway best-sellers. In those days, that sense of ‘something’ was vague and undefined, but it was there.
