Douglas Coupland's radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years

> To use a high-school analogy, 40 years ago you had jocks and nerds. Nowadays, there are Goths, emos, punks, metal-heads, geeks and so forth.

Huh?

Ferris Bueller was 26 years ago: "Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."

There was a 1982-1983 show called "Square Pegs", with the premise "Listen. I've got this whole high school thing psyched out. It all breaks down into cliques." / "Cliques?" / "Yeah, you know. Cliques. Little in-groups of different kids. All we have to do is click with the right clique, and we can finally have a social life that's worthy of us."

40 years ago there were greasers, skinheads, hippies, surfers, beatniks, teeny-boppers, and other groups.