A review by siskoid
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland

3.0

Douglas Coupland's Bit Rot is a collection of essays and short stories written between 2005 and 2015, all dealing in some way with how the human brain has been rewired in the 21st Century thanks to the Internet, other technological advances, and post 9/11 realities. While there is an apocalyptic bent to some of these texts, especially the short fables included (many of them first published as part of the novel Generation A), Coupland welcomes these changes as a necessary evolution of the human spirit. Nostalgic, yes. Sad or angry? No. And so he brings his breezy humorist's pen to topics ranging from spellcheck to airport security, inventing apps we may well see in the future, looking forward as much as he does behind in this exploration of the present.