The new I-Phone is more than a multi-faceted message center and music player. It is to our age what the printing press was to the year 1440. For centuries, talented writers have been written off by publishers who control what gets pressed and what is rejected. The tiny, hand held device invented by Apple will move man ahead, more so than the realization and understanding of gravity.
The thin, sleek device is what good writers have waited lifetimes for. Finally, the internet will be made not only portable, but convenient, affordable, sexy, and readable.
Reading on- line has yet to catch up with the popularity of video and film. Until now, digesting an entire book, while reading from a computer monitor, was nearly impossible. Very few have downloaded novels and taken them to the shore or sat with on-line publications on their laps while swinging from a hammock.
Today, bookworms line up for Harry Potter releases, tomorrow, there will be no more wasted paper or magic when it comes to publishing.
Readers will be able to subscribe to the words of authors for just pennies a click. They’ll pay to read popular writers for just a few cents a year at places like http://excellentfodder.wordpress.com/hurricaneshirley/, but those coins will add up fast, just like piles and piles of newspapers that need recycling.
“Did you read Shirley today?”
“Of course I did. Have you read her old stuff?”
“No, I can’t afford to,” they will cry into their I-Pod phones.
I believe that, inevitably, the information revolution will usher in a new age for humanity. Unless the Republicans destroy the earth first.