Interestingly Yours

( Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge #296 posted on Sep 7, 2023)

Fiction in the time of fake news-

Will lead to “The end of imagination” since fake news shall have all the imaginations.

Letters in the time of instant messaging-

                 What will then happen to “Things that Can and Cannot be said“, delicate enough not to be captured in messaging.

                  Books in the time of apps-

will be unthinkable like “The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire“, an absurd thought.

Lies in the post-truth era

shall become a part of “The cost of living” as day today affairs.

Human proficiency in ChatGPT era-

will either make humans “The God of small things” or demon of crudest things?

Freedom in the times of listening devices –

Will it not be something like “Listening to Grasshoppers“?

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #296

All blue fonts – books written by her, Good evening and see you next time. 

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Welcome to another week!

Weekly prompt #296

A phrase by Arundhati Roy (winner of the Booker Prize for fiction in 1997) caught my attention –

Fiction in the time of fake news.

I coined a few of my own inspired by it.

• Letters in the time of instant messaging
• Books in the time of apps
• Lies in the post-truth era
• Human proficiency in ChatGPT era
• Freedom in the times of listening devices

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