The San Mateo Daily Journal has a nice article on my talk at the Silicon Valley Futurists’ Salon meeting last week.
“Has this benefited me?” he said. “I don’t have a firm answer. I don’t have another first novel that I can compare with the sales of the first one to. The evidence points to yes, it’s at least been neutral.”
Many at the salon seemed to agree with Doctorow.
“Someone’s finally saying something sensible,” said Daniel Ford, a 24-year-old graduate student at Stanford University. “I guess the base of it [is] that it’s about [ensuring] creativity. If new technological problems come about you deal with them.”
