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North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: America Did Easily Eastern Fragment North North America Quickly

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Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Away Brain Chemical Consider Explained Functions Much Now Personality Structural Will

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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.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Activities Any Between Gaps How Layer Leave Many Much Others Perception Sequence Time Types Very You Your

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We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Back Change Collective Constant Doing Give Media Mutation Ought Ourselves Pat Really Universe Well

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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.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Because Brain Certain Change Existence Favour Force Fundamental Levels Mediums Others Over Parts Very You Your

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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.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Cafe Century Could Crumble Escapism Form Go Going Holiday Horrible Internet Like Local Only Practice Promising Sort Understandable Walk Without Would Yearning You Yourself 20Th Century

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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.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Ages Along Bridge Collapse Damage Determined Even Fixing God How How Much Human Knows Like Maintained Money Much Occur Only Politicians Take Time Which Will

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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.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Become Came Close Date Exposing How Infrastructure Money Out Process

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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.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Change End End Of The World Form Gives Happening Hope Improvement Included Many Myself People Time Us World

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Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Crime Else Lazy Nothing Turned Tv Writers

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

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