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Gen-X Author Douglas Coupland Claims that Technology Makes Idiots of Us All

Douglas Coupland has been drafted in to fill Stephen Fry's shoes on his tech column Dork Talk, while the British polymath recovers from a broken arm. The Canadian author and artist has tackled the subject of gadgets and obsolescence, taking as his starting-point the fact that the box of techno-baubles he received from The Guardian in London were all unworkable in North America. And this got him thinking, about how time is now measured in "tech-waves." If that's the case, then what era are we currently in? More »

8:51 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By AddyDugdale
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Latest by michaelleung: That motherfucker. Then let's strip him of his electronic gadgets and make him communicate in Morse code. more »