Thanks to Michael Schaub at Bookslut for this lead on the future of text. I should be dead by then, so what do I care?
Posted by Bobby Farouk at May 12, 2005 07:59 AMGreat, that's another 16,500-odd days of having to think of something to post. Catblogging? We'll be lucky if we're not bellybuttonfluffblogging by then.
Posted by: Alan Allport at May 12, 2005 01:31 PMThe first reason I can think of why he's wrong is that too many people work with words so intensively that, if they didn't have keyboards, they'd have to be speaking and listening all the time all day. A day of nonstop talking and listening is a lot more tiring than a day of nonstop typing and reading. Try it some time.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at May 13, 2005 01:01 PM