Afterword / Vietnam -- Black goo -- The short, brutal life of the Channel Three news team -- Nine readers -- Nine point zero -- Smells -- Coffee & cigarettes -- Public speaking -- Shiny -- Notes on relationships in the twenty-first century -- Fear of windows -- Creep -- Stamped -- Future blips -- Futurosity -- Worcestershistershire -- Bulk memory -- The mell -- The anti-ghosts -- Little black ghost -- New moods -- Beef rock -- Globalization is fun! -- Unclassy -- Wonkr -- Yield: a story about cornfields -- The 2 1/2th dimension -- Living big -- The end of the golden age of payphones -- The ones that got away -- 666! -- Dueling duals -- George Washington's extreme makeover -- George Washington's extreme makeover (pilot script) -- Pot -- Got a life -- Peace -- iF-iW eerF -- Stuffed -- Superman and the kryptonite martinis -- McWage -- Lotto -- Frugal -- Zoe hears the truth -- IQ -- My TV -- The preacher and his mistress -- 5,149 days ago: air travel post-9/11 -- Glide -- Klass warfare -- 3.14159265358 -- The great money flush of 2016 -- Ick -- Grexit -- World War $ -- The man who lost his story -- The valley -- 3 1/2 fingers -- An excerpt of Search -- Bit rot -- Bartholomew is right there at the dawn of language -- Temp -- Retail -- Trivial -- Uber that red dot -- 361 -- My name -- Mrs. McCarthy and Mrs. Brown -- An app called Yoo -- Afterword / by Samuel Saelemakers.
Summary:
"Bit Rot, a new collection from Douglas Coupland that explores the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being shredded, is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ... 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. 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.' Bit Rot the book explores the ways humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness. Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends. Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life."-- Provided by publisher.
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