The future of publishing could be a beautiful utopia, but we have to fight for it to exist first

I have been thinking about the future of publishing for years, and I can almost see it.

I have a vision. 

It's one that's haunted me for years…maybe haunted is not the right word, but in the absence of the right words, I have no choice but to use the ones that I have access to, and haunted feels right to me. 

I've seen it in fits and starts, like somebody is turning on a fritzing light and illuminating a great darkness in my brain for a second here and a minute there. 

When the light flickers on, though, I see the future. 

I see a future where authors and creators will create their own personalized ecosystem that sustainably works to feed them, nurture them, and allow them to lead the life they have always wanted without having to sell their souls to get it. 

It's an ecosystem that maybe only works for one person in the whole universe, like this nice gentleman who sealed a bottle 40 years ago and it still self-sustains to this day. 

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

Nobody else could have built that biome. Nobody else would have even thought to do it. But he di…