A dystopian novel for the digital age, Alena Graedons The Word Exchange offers an inventive, suspenseful, and decidedly original vision on the high cultural costs of digital technology and of the enduring power of the printed word. In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted “death of print” has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are things of the past, and we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication but also have become so intuitive that they hail us cabs before we leave our offices, order takeout at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called the Word Exchange. Link to her interview on 42 Minutes:
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:47:23 +0000