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Twitter allows you to express your thoughts within 140 characters and no more. Dolce&Gabbana's e-boutique launch was released using this “new” language. When the internet turns into literature.

Every century brings a new current of thought, literary and artistic expression. If at the beginning of the 20^th century, we had the right to Dadaism until someone figured something out, I feel that our shiny new millenium starts with, how we may call it: a loss of words. 

Literally, the phrase “I am speechless” applies well to our internaut society.

This doesn't actually mean that content wise we have less: it's just more democratic. Everyone can write whatever they feel, they like, they see, they eat, they poop, they make, they love, whom they hook up with, whom they dislike and so on... They even get creative: anyone out there ever made fun of some sort of artsy wanna be status, the deeper kind that actually no one gives a “merde” about? Well, I think they should do a book (at this point I think I am well researched but you let me know if something of the sort has been published before this goes to print). 

I heard about a writer experimenting with “internet language” and using it in a novel. The reviews were disparate: some were talking about “finally a modern book”, and others just thought it was a curious experiment and not much more.

This raised a question in my head: what era do we live in when it comes to literature? Are we stuck in the classic structure of the novel, do we still need a plot line, a hero, an evolution, a beginning and an end?

If Raymond Carver introduced short stories (and get the hint, he got it so right: people didn't have time to read a whole book anymore), what and who will introduce what now? Are we all writers because we are on twitter and facebook? After all, aren't we telling a story? Ours? Think if you could have all your tweets and statuses published: what would be the story line? Is any story, any human story interesting?

If we believe we are passing through this life for at least one reason, we might say yes.

However, is all this shortened expression of our life literature? Does it count anything, or is it just killing the use of speech?

I feel like the French when they forbid the use of English words in their vocabulary, so whereas Italians say “computer”, the French use “l'ordinateur”. This is only a single example of language preservation.

The future of language and communications is definitely bound to evolve. What would the next current be? 140 characters to express yourself, no more.

Is it harder to convey a concept through only a few words or actually developping the idea into a structured paragraph?

As you see, I am trying to make you understand what a great turning point we are facing in the history of our human stories and our way of conveying them.

The movies riped away a large part of readers, the internet riped away our time to do anything else, and the stories we get are from there: in only 140 characters.
Science fiction leads me to think like a 21^st century Jules Vernes: what if language lost its importance and wasn't needed anymore. 140 words today: 0 tomorrow. Our thoughts will travel without the need of an exterior net.

In a strange way, as scary and robotic as it sounds, I think that if we are all connected in one single net that connects each human being and their thoughts, emotions, daily assertments of existence, the world would be much like the Eden I have in mind.

As of now we are potentially developped individuals waiting for the right technology hanging in a state of maintanance.  

Written by Acelya Yonac

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