In 1972, just as I was heading off to university to study economics and social psychology, I picked up a book that would quietly shape the way I viewed the world: Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock. I must have come across it by chance, but its core ideas stuck with me. Toffler warned that the accelerating pace of change — technological, social, psychological — would overwhelm not just individuals but whole societies. His phrase “too much change in too short a time” lodged itself in my memory.