(/ˈkærʌm/)
Verb
1. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
2. (cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player’s ball.
… While “anticipatory democracy” sounds salubrious, Toffler defined it very specifically: “Anticipatory” meant making use of long-term forecasting techniques, especially the computer-based modeling of economic, demographic, and other trends that were just coming into vogue in the late 1960s and early 1970s; “democracy” meant the kind of intimate town halls of Norman Rockwell mythology that would restore to individual citizens a modicum of control over their careening, caroming lives.
From the post: What the 1970 book ‘Future Shock’ got right (and wrong)
Source: Alvin Toffler was right about future shock but wrong about the solution (slate.com)
