Writer Chris Bohjalian (pronounce at your own risk…) expresses his fears in this article carried by the Salisbury Post here. I get a kick out of all this. You know, I would never have heard of this guy if not for the very digital changes he’s afraid of.
It amazes me that so many writers can take such a non-traditional and potentially dangerous life-path and remain worry warts. It’s the nature of the beast, yah?
(p.s. I did the online reading test he suggests, and he’s right. I quit reading before the end of the article. When I realized this and went back to finish I discovered that I would have missed this line: “That is one of the risks we have going to digital — losing our totemic, fetishistic, soulful connection to pulp and ink and glue.” I understand it, but fetishistic? Gesundheit!)
