As we study the great literature of past periods one has to ask what will great authors of the future be like? Human societies and civilizations are changing rapidly and as we get into the information age where information come at us faster and faster and where fewer and fewer people sit down and read literature. Sure, there are plenty of people reading suspense novels, detective stories and cheap love stories, but is that really literature?
Is the age of literature dying? Will be authors of the future be virtual reality specialists who design, build and innovate artificial dreamlike environments to help humans in order so they can think? The future will be interesting indeed, but will we be willing to give up human literature of past periods and a future without such? Great authors of the future; what will they be like? Will the great authors of the future be similar to the authors of the past or is that style of writing to complex and to slow to read for a modern age.
Will readers of the future accept long drawn out novels where it takes 20 pages just to develop the character in order for the reader to understand the dynamics of their personal and inner psychology? Will the great authors of the past be replaced with virtual reality scenes of the future? How will the new paradigm of literature change the way we think and learn? Consider all of this in 2006.
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