Douglas Coupland Predicts Next 10 Years

[Kilgore Trout]

Last week Economist Jeff Rubin predicted oil is going to hit 200. a barrel by 2012 and this week, Vancouver writer Douglas Coupland's has an essay predicting the next 10 years.

The whole thing will make you nostalgic for the 80's and 90's.
Technology and declining energy resources will cause the ground you stand on to move and shift if things play out like Coupland expects. Slightly better than Mel Gibson lifestyle in one of the Mad Max series films.


Among Coupland's predictions:

*The middle class is gone and it's not coming back.

*The suburbs are doomed, try to live near a subway entrance.

*Enjoy lettuce while you can.

*Your sense of time will continue to shred. Years will feel like hours

*Everyone will be feeling the same way as you.

*It will become harder to view your life as "a story".

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...de-to-the-next-10-years/article1750609/page1/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...-future-of-oil-ask-jeff-rubin/article1741131/

 

[nottyboi]

so our dollar will be worth 1.15 per sheet of toilet paper... wooo hooo!!!

 

[james t kirk]

In addition, Patrica Croft ( retired former RBC chief economist) is predicting the loonie at 1.15 (or more) to the US dollar in the next year or so.

http://www.thestar.com/moneyville/article/870761--is-our-dollar-headed-for-1-15-u-s

And 5 years ago, Sherri Cooper - Chief Economist at BMO and Garth (always wrong) Turner were predicting the Loonie would fall to 50 cents unless we all agreed to forgoe the Canadian dollar and take on the US dollar as our own currency.

 

[mandrill]

Why is Coupland so interested in lettuce?

 

[james t kirk]

He's definitely extremely negative. Just doom and gloom. One wonders why he didn't rub his ever expanding forehead and predict an asteroid would wipe out every living thing on the Earth.

If I was Copeland I'd be more worried about saving my hair than saving lettuce.

 

[Rockslinger]

I don't care about all the other stuff as long as they stop playing those fucking CGA TV commercials.

 

[Aardvark154]

Very, very had to predict anymore than a year or two into the future. There are just way too many variables.

 

[Aardvark154]

Also Greenspan in 2000 called the NASDAQ (at 5000) to be "irrational exuberance" yet people were lining up to buy Nortel stock at $100+.

Still eight years is not exactly "calling it." Depending upon the type investments you were making you either saved yourself by sitting pat for eight years, or lost a lot of money by sitting pat for eight years.

 

[Dewalt]

I wouldn't listen to Doug Coupland too closely. He hasn't written a decent book that wasn't self indulgent drivel since 1995. He is too busy designing clothing for roots and getting a ton of $ to design sculpture to take seriously. Doom and gloom sells, that is how lots of capitalists make $.

 

[blueman]

Very, very had to predict anymore than a year or two into the future. There are just way too many variables.

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