“The fear of robots replacing authors is a false binary. I see it as the beginning of two diverging markets, readers who want to connect with other humans across time and space, or readers who are satisfied with a customized on-demand content pellet fed to them by the big computer so they never have to be challenged again.” – Daniel Kibblesmith, who received the letter from HarperCollins. Bloomberg
reports HarperCollins made the deal with Microsoft.
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