Continuing the topic from yesterday’s post…<\/p>\n
The reason it is still a book is that there is still only a single author. Contrast this with a movie or a theater production, which is a collaboration between an entire team of professionals with complementary skills.<\/p>\n
Such creations require not just a screenplay, but also a production designer, director, camera operator, lighting designer, sound designer, and so forth, as well as a cast and crew.<\/p>\n
But a book is the product of a writer’s mind. What you read emerges from that writer’s imagination and ability to tell a story.<\/p>\n
In my “future book” scenario there is still only you and the writer. Yes, there is also Artificial Intelligence, but that is a tool, like a camera or the process of printing and book binding, not another human artist.<\/p>\n
Eventually we will come to see A.I. as just another tool, like a movie camera or a paint brush. What really matters is the judgement and skill, for better or worse, of the person who wields that paint brush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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