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Generation A: Douglas Coupland
Posted Sep 21, 2009
Generation A is set twenty years from now in an increasing hyper-connected world which is threatening individuality. Coupland seeks to show how people have "become what they click": their homes mapped by Google, their knowledge “Wikipedic”, and nights spent “padlocked” to a computer “YouTubing their past”. Is it just us or does this all sound frighteningly familiar?
Coupland's new novel has futuristic echoes of his first novel, Generation X – the classic 1991 bestseller that introduced the world to slackers employed in McJobs. The eerie but humourous story revolves around the prediction that in the near future bees will become extinct - until one autumn when five people are stung in different places around the world. The shared experience unites them in a way they never could have imagined.
The video above features author Douglas Coupland sealed in a sterile white room, whilst he is bombarded with a series of questions designed to gain some insight into his thought processes and his new novel, Generation A.
You can also follow Douglas Coupland now on Twitter at twitter.com/DougCoupland.
Kerry Olsen
Sources: Douglas Coupland, The Telegraph
Photo Credit:www.randomhouse
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