Future Shock?

Many years ago, (in 1970, to be exact) Alvin Toffler wrote, first for the magazine Playboy, then a book, called Future Shock, about what Wikipedia describes as 'a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time".'

When I read my father's copy of the book, I thought Toffler had gone too far, had ascribed too much to the changes gradually creeping over the world.

Now, here in Dubai, I feel that Toffler's descriptions are, if anything, too mild to describe what is happening.

I am not sure, however, if that's because I am far less callow than I was when I read the book and thought things were changing far too glacially, or if Dubai is really the culmination of what Toffler warned about.