{"id":5649,"date":"2018-01-20T05:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T05:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2018-01-20T05:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T05:16:51","slug":"three-dominant-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5649","title":{"rendered":"Three Dominant Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Zone__component Article__zone Article__head\">\n<div class=\"Zone__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"PageHead__component\">\n<p>Excerpted from CNN ARTS \u00a0Published 19th January 2018<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5656 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Coupland-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Coupland-portrait.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Coupland-portrait-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Coupland-portrait-768x453.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"PageHead__title\"><strong>Douglas Coupland:<\/strong> <strong>&#8216;I no longer remember my pre-internet brain&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last six years, I&#8217;ve developed a sort of unified theory of everything detailing our ever-escalating, almost invariably out-of-synch relationship with the technologies we create, and how their largely unintended side effects have molded our societies and our era. I can boil it down to <em>three dominant trends<\/em> that demarcate our current existence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5658 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3-dominant-trends-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3-dominant-trends-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3-dominant-trends--300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3-dominant-trends--768x422.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first is that <strong><em>the online world has vastly outpaced our ability to create political stability<\/em><\/strong>.The second:<strong><em> We have a new relationship with time<\/em><\/strong>.Third: <em><strong>We&#8217;re an ungrateful species<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5657 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-painter-3-dominant-trends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-painter-3-dominant-trends.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-painter-3-dominant-trends-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-painter-3-dominant-trends-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5655 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Doug-C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Doug-C.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Doug-C-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Doug-C-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from CNN ARTS \u00a0Published 19th January 2018 Douglas Coupland: &#8216;I no longer remember my pre-internet brain&#8217; &#8220;Over the last six years, I&#8217;ve developed a sort of unified theory of everything detailing our ever-escalating, almost invariably out-of-synch relationship with the technologies we create, and how their largely unintended side effects have molded our societies and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three Dominant Trends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12832,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/12832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}