"The downside will be sudden and dramatic. The dissemination of current knowledge will continue and accelerate, but the accumulation of new knowledge (and particularly of new creative fiction) will grind to a sudden stop
_______________________________________________TEd Remington 12-16-04

TEd, I have dated your quote above because one day soon it will be cited far and wide
with an allusion to the malapropic 19th Century rejoinder "Get a horse!".

Consider this...

People don't read for fun.
People read to learn.
Learning is fun.

If a writer is writing for money...that ain't fun.
And no one wants to learn something that ain't fun.