I particularly love the final paragraph of The Reading Ape's post. It always kind of baffles me to see perfectly intelligent people assume that something that revolutionised human communication as much as the Internet has is in fact too frivolous and temporary to deserve a place in Serious Fiction. I think the way these things are portrayed fictionally definitely reflects the world’s ambiguity towards them, but what frustrates me sometimes is to think that it doesn’t HAVE to be this way. I don’t know, maybe literature could be one of the things that would make the world at large realise that we can no longer ignore the fact that this matters. Where are those stories? I’m sure there’s a place for them.