Golam was finishing up his keynote address at the inaugural Network Publishing Conference held at the Hilton's Virtual Palace:

"For as writing gains in breadth what it loses in depth," he was expertly propositioning to the 200-plus avatars seated in the virtual auditorium, "the conventional distinction between author and public, which is upheld by the commercial presses, begins in network culture to disappear. For the reader is at all times ready to become a writer, that is, a cyborg-narrator whose sampled and manipulated bits of digital data are ready to be instantaneously teleported into cyberspace. As an expert navigator, the cyborg-narrator gains access to what we once called authorship but what now, in a world facilitated by an unstoppable technological advancement, has become a node of network-potential.

"Literary art, then, is no longer founded on specialized knowledge but, rather, on polytechnic performance, and is now public property."

He took a deep breath and then a long pause before saying, simply, "thank you very much. I'll be happy to take questions."