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Meanland: Reading in a Time of Technology looks at how technology will change writing, reading and what we call literature.
Director of the Institute for the Future of the Book Chris Meade discusses his own experiments with digital writing and why the end of the book is just the beginning for fiction. Games writer Paul Callaghan explains how story is a space you explore, playing as adopting characters and how choice is a powerful narrative force in games.
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Great discussion. I like the idea of an evolving story that Chris talks of. It reminds me of a game I played where you walk through the words of a book...can't recall the games name. But it was a similar concept.
The possibilities are fascinating and I sometimes wonder if in fact it's not the death of literature but in fact we are on the cusp of a renaisance (I hope I'm not misusing that word).
Ian Uniacke
29 June at 01:01PM
Hi, is this video really Chris Meade as well as PC, as all I can see to begin with is 14 mins of Paul. (And I would love to hear Chris M.)
Thanks, Genevieve
genevieve
29 June at 01:27PM
It really is, Genevieve. He comes on after Paul, at 6 minutes 40 seconds and the second half is all Chris.
Our favourite Meade quote: "suddenly all the sky is paper and all the sea is ink".
Wheeler Centre
29 June at 01:43PM
oh super. Thanks!
genevieve
30 June at 11:47AM