Editing Future Shock (section)

== Significance and reception ==
The book sold over 6 million copies within five years<ref name="Wagar1991">{{cite book|author=W. Warren Wagar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBcmAQAAMAAJ|title=The Next Three Futures: Paradigms of Things to Come|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1991|isbn=978-0-313-26528-0|location=|pages=26}}</ref> and has been widely translated (it had translations into twenty foreign languages {{as of|2003|lc=y|post=).}}<ref name="Tudor2003">{{cite book|author=Corneliu Vadim Tudor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7OGgAAAAMAAJ|title=Romania's One Way Ticket to the Future|publisher=Greater Romania Foundation Publishing House|year=2003|isbn=978-973-86070-4-0|location=|pages=55}}</ref> It has been described as "an international [[bestseller]] within weeks of publication".<ref name="Witzel2005">{{cite book|author=Morgen Witzel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOyPumbw0poC&pg=PA501|title=Encyclopedia of History of American Management|date=15 May 2005|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-84371-131-5|page=501}}</ref>

A [[Future Shock (film)|documentary film]] based on the book was released in 1972 with [[Orson Welles]] as the on-screen narrator.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Future Shock: Orson Welles Narrates a 1972 Film About the Perils of Technological Change {{!}} Open Culture|url=https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/future-shock.html|access-date=2021-02-05|language=en-US}}</ref>

Wang Huning, a distinguished member of the [[Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party | CCP Politburo Standing Committee]] mentioned the book in his 1991 travelogue ''[[America Against America]]''.<ref>https://tikhanovlibrary.com/doubt-made-in-america/</ref>