In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age.
Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit, surprise and delight..
For almost three decades, his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction, and his phrase-making.
The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland’s legion of fans hungry for his observations about our world.
Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life.
Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends.
Bit Rot the book explores the ways humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness.
As Coupland writes, ‘bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones’. you can\'t stop with just one.‘Bit rot’ is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. . .
Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix .
In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age
