“If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.”

—  Alvin Toffler , book Future Shock

Future Shock (1970), ch. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=p1t2SOENHWYC&q=%22with+its+faster+pace+of+life+has+accelerated+the+family+cycle+super+industrialism+now+threatens+to+smash+it+altogether%22&pg=PA258#v=snippet

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