Douglas Coupland: the writer who sees into the future
“In the end I never really understand what Coupland feels about the future, but he doesn’t seem to mind…
A friend asked him recently, if he had the choice would he go back to the 90s? He might as well have suggested returning to the middle ages; Coupland was horrified.
“No! Because I would miss the sense of frontier that we have right now. Soon it won’t be the internet any more, it’ll just be like air, like somehow they’ll integrate the internet into the air. And God’s name will have ended up being Google, because that’s the way it worked out.
“It could have worked out that God’s name ended up being Yahoo, of course,” he adds. “But they lost out.”“
