Bit Rot

When people in the future ask what it was like to live at the beginning of the 21st century, they should read Douglas Coupland. The term Bit Rot refers to a process in the field of digital archiving: files can suddenly and quickly dissolve. Douglas Coupland, one of the great analysts of our digital era for decades, has come to realize in recent years that Bit Rot also very accurately describes how my brain has felt since the year 2000, as I dismantled older and weaker neurons and synaptic connections and unexpectedly created new ones. In his book, Coupland mixes various literary genres, much like the internet itself, and presents them side by side as equals. In this way, he critiques our notion of a consistent future and provides an analysis of our present that is unparalleled. A must-read for the hypermodern.