The future isn’t going to feel futuristic

Douglas Coupland is the writer of Generation X , found in the site http://www.phawker.com/ is his grimm vision of the Future...

1) It’s going to get worse

No silver linings and no lemonade. The elevator only goes down. The bright note is that the elevator will, at some point, stop.

2) The future isn’t going to feel futuristic

It’s simply going to feel weird and out-of-control-ish, the way it does now, because too many things are changing too quickly. The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn’t feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

Try to live near a subway entrance In a world of crazy-expensive oil, it’s the only real estate that will hold its value, if not increase.

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