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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
What a horrible world to contemplate. No reading? No authors?
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It will be horrible for most of us looking from the now into the future, but I can't see how the concept of authorship can survive a connected and real-time world. Look now at the most popular form of fiction; the video game. There's no author of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 or Batman: Arkham Asylum, and as those fictional experiences become more immersive, the creator/audience will blur into one another. Characters will survive, they always do. There are plenty of people now who can tell you who Sherlock Holmes is without knowing his creator. Everyone knows Batman too, but I bet there are very few people who can tell you the creator's name.
Again, it's not something I'm happy about, but I can't see how writing/reading as a form of pleasure will survive.