The 2017 Ikea Catalog considered as dystopian urban microapartment futurism
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1RH1A)
The new Ikea Catalog is making a big bet on very small living spaces -- the kind of place that costs more than half your monthly salary but is too small for a dinner-table, let alone a separate room for your kids, who are supposed to sleep in a bunk-bed in the living room ("Why would a child on the verge of pubescence need privacy anyway?"). (more")