"future shock" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1977, Bruce Stirling, Involution Ocean, published 1988, page 76:",
          "text": "And of course, future shock and death-wish encroachment eventually got everyone, especially on advanced planets. Deep down, deep down, we all want to die.",
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          "ref": "2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "GPT-4 […] exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I’ve been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately. And it has made me wonder whether that feeling will ever fade, or whether we’re going to be experiencing “future shock” — the term coined by the writer Alvin Toffler for the feeling that too much is changing, too quickly — for the rest of our lives.",
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