"We use novels, not old newspapers, to get a sense of what life was like 100 years ago. I believe 100..."

“We use novels, not old newspapers, to get a sense of what life was like 100 years ago. I believe 100 years from now, future generations will still use novels the same way. They’ll use novels, not tweets or posts like this. And they’ll use the rich ones — the ones that have things to say things about culture and politics, the ones that absorb and synthesize.”

- Robin Sloan in his article “Welcome ‘The Sopranos’ and Twitter” from The New York Times, June 2012 (via bookmania)