In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix . . . you can't stop with just one. Bit rot is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and w ...