Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.
Douglas Coupland
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The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
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North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.
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Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.
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Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
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As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.
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If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.
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In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.
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The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.
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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.
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