In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
![“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now. Maybe it's just because I'm with an older gang now.[...]I mean nobody even has hobbies these days. Not that I can see. Husbands and wives both…” quote by Douglas Coupland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/804/douglas-coupland-305_consumption_there-s-a-hardness-i-m-seeing-in-modern_1420139.jpg)
