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The author and artist on why we weren’t careful enough about we wished for — and what happens after coronavirus
Douglas Coupland on why we need to fight ‘noptimism’
Sleep is the only part of our technologically overloaded existence that doesn’t involve a constant dopamine hit
‘On top of all the words stored in your brain, you also have 4,000 celebrities. That’s a big chunk of neural real estate’
‘If you want to know what the superpower of invisibility feels like, try being a 55-year-old guy in rehab’
Meat = the food of kings. Vegetables = settling for less. Agree? Go to the comments section — it’s 2017!
I’ve always wanted to go to anger management therapy but I don’t think I’m angry enough
‘I have several versions of me which I know I can more or less count on depending the situation. . . Everyday Doug . . . Serious Doug . . . Party Doug’
I got to thinking about the Queen dying for real — what it would feel like and how it might go down. I can’t imagine a world without Her
What once seemed a blessing is now a nuisance
The feel of the internet is unlike anything else: as wondrous as the bubbling cradle of pea-soup goo from which life emerged
A plan to fix US politics
Douglas Coupland’s casting call to find Vincent van Gogh’s living doppelgänger
My one-day voyage to Russia
Everyone makes that fake ‘Ooh, salad!’ face, like it’s something to look forward to. But it’s filled with this stuff called lettuce that spends its life in a field being sprayed with pesticides
The more I think about it, the more I realise booze really is glamorous. So are cigarettes. Life is odd
‘It was a truly beautiful thing, spooning voluptuously in the palm of my hand’
The nice thing about school reunions is that everyone is still themselves. Annoying people still annoy. The clueless remain clueless
There’s a one-in-four chance the hotel you’re going to is jackhammering something, and chances are it’s above your room
Now in its 10th year, the 2016 forum hosts discussions ranging from market trends to outer space
‘Somewhere in the past few years the present melted into the future — and we’re now living inside it 24/7’
Recalling the golden age of the shopping mall and why we may look back on the 1990s as the last good decade
If you ever wonder what it looks like to see someone lose several million dollars, let me tell you, it is a dreadful thing to witness
‘Imagine marrying someone who turned into a creaky, prematurely aged miser — would that be a deal-breaker for you?’
Man-made odours can affect us in emotionally unpredictable ways
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