‘Story of the Future’ seminar

The last decade of writing, and tools & platforms:

New technology allows texts to be updated, for the reader to have ‘sessions’ with texts, and for the texts' boundaries to be unclear, with no audience ownership.

[Interesting rhetoric: but I suppose it’s worth asserting the divisions.]

It’s about having fictional worlds enter real life, in which there are now more gamers than viewers.

[Is it, then, artefact versus activity?]

This type of writing is rules, missions, dialogue, rather than plain narrative.

Teams of writers are more common now in this milieu. The presenter proposed that it’s the “death of the author and the birth of the world.”

[Really? Postmodernism had a go at killing off the author, but ultimately failed. Will video kill the radio star?]