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Why we will all be working in fast-food restaurants into our eighties
‘A big screen in a domestic space is like having a ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ monolith inserted into your life’
The banker-turned-novelist recalls the ‘mad excitement’ of his early years as a poor immigrant in America, ‘where everything was possible’. Or was it?
It took four years for my brain to learn how to type on both a laptop and a mobile phone
The writer recollects the far-from-impoverished cuisine of his 1950s childhood – and the technologists’ vision of a culinary revolution
I like pills. I like the idea of pills. They confer a superpower on you. Sadly, I don’t take many . . .
‘The ultimate truth about weight gain in western culture is it’s great for the economy’
‘A law seems to have been passed in liberal, brownstone Brooklyn prohibiting the wearing of shoes . . . ’
Airport stickers, Chinese cigarette packs as art, and the One Per Cent Politburo
‘Technically, I don’t have a job – but I do have words of warning for those who’d like one’
‘You really can’t erase a country’s past but Sochi has made a valiant attempt’
The new video-game generation thinks – and creates – very differently. Take Lego . . .
The old class definitions are becoming obsolete. Here are some new ones for a new era
‘The world’s most intriguing documents now lie comatose inside a 1995-ish laptop… ’
‘Going online is such an intrinsically solitary act yet, ironically, it fosters the creation of groups and very strong relationships’
‘All the revolutionary leader needed was dentistry, Botox and a Tampa tan’
‘Before long, that helpful app you downloaded will have turned into a virtual (younger, better) you’
‘There’s possibly a parallel universe out there where money was broken to the point of unfixability…’
Having a coffee with your doppelgänger is one thing. But taking it further?
Imagine the Treasury could earn billions doing absolutely nothing
Our era needs new words to describe new conditions
The irony of turning 50 prompted Douglas Coupland, author of ‘Generation X’, to write this essay
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