The future of Thomas Fuller

Biography as we know it is being wiped off the face of the earth by social media, in which everything personal and professional is known within minutes of its happening, with the person making whatever is happening happen doing the reporting.

Only that which can only be known later will have value, and relatively little or next to nothing will now be known later as everything will now be known as soon as possible or even sooner.

It will no longer be possible to construct the life stories of film stars, politicians, athletes, writers or other people of public interest since their life stories will already have been told.

Time is a now more than ever a plaything. Today is always the day after and the day after that. The 'Futurist' vision of the early 20th century--glorifying themes associated with contemporary concepts of culture (speed, youth, violence, objects like the automobile, airplane, the industrial city)--has achieved its technology!

We are presently in the moment of our cultural history, or very close to it, when it is possible to imagine a man going door-to-door in rural Kansas selling Wikipedia as he once sold Encyclopedia Brittanica. The future of civilization belongs to men like Paul Virilio and women like Gertrude Stein.

When anyone asks me what I'm writing now, I say I'm writing about sunrise and sunset and the differences between the two, now that privacy's been obliterated and become so public the moment it happens.