Part of Douglas Coupland's list of
100 Things That Would Shock Somebody Living A Hundred Years Ago


No. 63: You can get almost any food you want at any time of the year.
No. 64: Women do everything men do and it's not that big a deal.
No. 65: Anybody on the planet can have a crystal-clear conversation with anybody else on the planet pretty well any time they want to.
No. 66: You can comfortably and easily wake up in Sydney, Australia, and go to bed in New York.
No. 67: The universe is a trillion billion million times larger than you ever dreamed it would be.
No. 68: You pretty well never see or smell shit.
No. 69: We went to the moon and to Mars a few times, and there's really nothing there except rocks, so we quit dreaming about them.
No. 70: Thousands of diseases are quickly and easily cured with a few pills.
No. 71: Astoundingly detailed descriptions of sex acts appear on the front page of The New York Times, and nobody is ruffled by it.
No. 72: By pushing a single button, it's possible to kill 5 million people in just one second.
No. 73: Bad moods have been eliminated.
No. 74: You almost never see horses.
No. 75: You can store pretty well all books ever published inside a box no larger than a coffin.
No. 76: We made the planet's weather a little bit warmer.
 
 
 

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