Future shock

Rapid change in a short a period of time bringing about a kind of cultural shock. The term was coined by futurist Alvin Toffler in his 1970 bestseller with the same title. Toffler said, "We coined the phrase 'future shock' as an analogy to the concept of culture shock. With future shock you stay in one place but your own culture changes so rapidly that it has the same disorienting effect as going to another culture" (New Scientist).