In 2060 the only authors left will be the e-readers themselves
After digital downloads and internet piracy closed the last book store, as they had the last music store, authors were left broke and hungry. While musicians gave their work away and survived through touring, authors were forced to abandon writing for practical employment. Lacking even rudimentary social skills, most became teachers or got jobs working for the government. Some gave up completely and suicide rates among authors tracked almost perfectly against eBook downloads.
Demand for new books grew and with no authors to write them software was developed to fill the hole. The software juxtaposed various old pieces of various old books already stored on e-readers to create new books. Every new book was an amalgam of books already written. Jay Gatsby joined the droogs of A Clockwork Orange and together they travelled west across Delillo’s Underworld in search of Kesey flying over the cuckoo’s nest. There was now literally, nothing new, but the possibilities were virtually infinite.
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