Universal Literate Dummies
Publishing prediction: by 2013 we will be a world of literate dummies.
Put together Seed magazine A Writing Revolution, predicting universal authorship in three years, with Publishers Weekly Viral Issue: Creating Your Viral Loop on Twitter, providing plans to create book buzz -- and whadda ya' got? We'll all be authors too busy marketing on social media to read each other's works. No, seriously, one is scary and the other, scary useful.
We'll know everything about friending, following, facing up to spaces, tweeting, buzzing, and the content we create ourselves (maybe) and nothing about anything truly needed in life. Maybe.
I'm hedging my bets here, because I've usually been at the vanguard of more than just the Baby Boomers, and I don't have a cell phone! Can you spell "technology backlash"? Our lives are reaching the point of maximum overload in so many areas, all depending on digital innovations. Will paper-print products be the last to go? Bury me with a book, a magazine and a newspaper, please.
All said, however, as I prepare to shift the availability of my writing products to the digital download gizzies at the beginning of 2010. Why not? New decade, new delivery systems. I'm not no dummy yet. (The grammar is always the first to go.)
Put together Seed magazine A Writing Revolution, predicting universal authorship in three years, with Publishers Weekly Viral Issue: Creating Your Viral Loop on Twitter, providing plans to create book buzz -- and whadda ya' got? We'll all be authors too busy marketing on social media to read each other's works. No, seriously, one is scary and the other, scary useful.We'll know everything about friending, following, facing up to spaces, tweeting, buzzing, and the content we create ourselves (maybe) and nothing about anything truly needed in life. Maybe.
I'm hedging my bets here, because I've usually been at the vanguard of more than just the Baby Boomers, and I don't have a cell phone! Can you spell "technology backlash"? Our lives are reaching the point of maximum overload in so many areas, all depending on digital innovations. Will paper-print products be the last to go? Bury me with a book, a magazine and a newspaper, please.
All said, however, as I prepare to shift the availability of my writing products to the digital download gizzies at the beginning of 2010. Why not? New decade, new delivery systems. I'm not no dummy yet. (The grammar is always the first to go.)
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posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 8:33 AM
4 Comments:
2013? hmm, goodnes, ahh, I ahh, can't, um, belive, er it!
I think the predictions are a bit to generous.
Well, Rebecca, it's all in what you consider to be an "author" and "published." I agree, too generous. Is tweeting really writing? It does take skill to construct a good one, but writing?
Thanks. I’m an author of the Seed article. Yes, defining authorship/publishing is a thorny issue, and predicting is risky. We discuss both issues in our reply to comments at the New York Times blog.
http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/a-writing-revolution/#comment-28215
Thanks for stopping by, Denis, to alert me to the fact that editors of the NY Times "Week in Review" chose your Seed article to feature in their Idea of the Day here. More academic-minded readers will also enjoy the authors' supplement to their Seed article here.
I look forward to learning the validation method for determining that 100 people have read something. I'm still mulling over this one. It certainly doesn't jibe with conventional definitions of "published," which has no readership requirement that I am aware of.
There's published and then there's technically published.
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