Jennifer McDonald, on the London Review of Books panel on writing in the age of the internet
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Now, about this Age of the Internet. It’s an exciting but strange thing to consider, the panelists agreed. Strange because no one yet has firm answers to questions about the Internet’s effect on the future of reading and writing and publishing, although we insist on prophesying. And strange because although we are quick to attempt to label our age, it is almost impossible to do so accurately, considering we are caught up in it and have no real idea of its trajectory. (Noting that a number of London Review people were left scrambling to reach the United States in the midst of “ash cloud” madness last week, Toibin pointed out that future historians may look back and decide to call this the Age of the Volcano.) In other words, the mere title of the event was enough to throw panel and audience into an existential tizzy.
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