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Old 11-12-2009, 04:43 PM   #31
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I'm going to add Haruki Murakami into the mix.
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Old 11-12-2009, 04:51 PM   #32
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I honestly don't believe we'll be reading books in one hundred years time, and those that do will be a tiny minority. The concept of the author will be dead and everyone will create in real time by interaction. If anything of 'our' time remains it will not be the names of dead authors, but the characters they created. Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes, Hannibal Lecter, Spenser etc (and especially those who have made the transition into film/games and become popular there in the interim).
What a horrible world to contemplate. No reading? No authors?
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What a horrible world to contemplate. No reading? No authors?
No skalds either.....
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Old 11-12-2009, 04:58 PM   #35
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what's a skald ?
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Old 11-12-2009, 04:59 PM   #36
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What a horrible world to contemplate. No reading? No authors?
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.
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Old 11-12-2009, 05:04 PM   #38
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...Everyone knows Batman too, but I bet there are very few people who can tell you the creator's name....
That's easy -- B.K.!
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Old 11-12-2009, 05:05 PM   #40
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YES! He is one of my favourites, I can't believe I didn't think of him until you mentioned him.
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Old 11-12-2009, 05:06 PM   #41
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YES! He is one of my favourites, I can't believe I didn't think of him until you mentioned him.
i can't believe *i* didn't think of him until you mentioned Haruki Murakami.

he's one of my favourites too. absolutely brilliant writer. i should check if his books are available as ebooks.
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what's a skald ?

(I hope I used the right word, or Tompe will be very upset...)

A skald was a nordic poet/singer/news carrier who wandered from place to place during the middle ages...

I believe there was a French equivalent word starting with a J, but I don't want to embarrass myself mis-spelling it...
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Old 11-12-2009, 05:17 PM   #43
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Again, it's not something I'm happy about, but I can't see how writing/reading as a form of pleasure will survive.
I think reading will still give pleasure 100 years from now; it may even become a precious personal refuge from the constant online/interactive world of the future.
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what's a skald ?
Roughly, a nordic bard.

Skalds were Scandanavian high-court poets.
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