2020 Foresight

Former publisher Richard Nash, one of the many prognosticators about the future of books, has some dire predictions for the next decade, but even he thinks long-form narrative will survive in some manifestation. I do worry though. Will anyone other than long-form writers and people stuck on the subway (assuming they don't have internet on the A Train) still have the attention span to absorb pages and pages of text?

Check out his posting: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/publishing/richard_nash_book_publishing_10_years_in_the_future_147747.asp