Cloud nein: Will the neuro-mash kill novels?

As cyberconnection obliterates boundaries, some speculate that truth stranger than fiction will render literature obsolete.

Contrary to the idea that literature will be rendered obsolete if we can plug into each other’s brains, we don’t read great fiction, like that of late author Toni Morrision, to know the raw, unrefined blather of a writer’s mind, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Flickr photograph by Angela Radulescu

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

September 11, 2019

There’s a special sub-genre of technology writing that I like to think of as the Ativan of the new new journalism—the stuff that soothingly portrays boundary violating, privacy-invading, human rights abrogating technological innovation as cool and fun as opposed to creepy and horrifying. In the...

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