Humpday Must Read - A Chat with Margaret Atwood on Digital Dystopia
Novelist Margaret Atwood shares Why the End of Humanity will Not be Because of Tech Entrepreneurs Photo by Jean Malek By Sarah Lacy on June 11, 2017. Originally published on Startups.co - the world's largest startup platform, helping over 1 million startup companies. More from Startups. In today’s era of quick consumption media, we’re lucky to have any words stay relevant ten minutes after they are written. (Just look at how the Tweets of President Donald Trump complaining about Barack Obama golfing too much have aged.) Novelist Margaret Atwood has pulled off something tremendous in that the 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is even more relevant today, than any other time. And that wasn’t a fluke. It’s not the only Atwood project making the leap to TV. “Oryx and Crake” has been in production as well as “Alias Grace.” Barely a week goes by where Atwood doesn’t get a fan Tweeting her about one of her post-apocalyptic fantasies coming a little too close to reality...