The Future Is Now

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 6, 2015

Generation X novelist and Financial Times columnist Douglas Coupland and Shumon Basar, the co-authors of The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present (Blue Rider Press, 2015), talk about their new book, modeled on The Medium is the Massage, that explores how the internet has changed our brains and, they claim...the structure of the planet.

An image from The Age of Earth Quakes: An Extreme Guide to the Present
(Photograph by Hendrik Harms/Creative Commons)
An image from The Age of Earth Quakes: An Extreme Guide to the Present
(Douglas Copeland)

  

 

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