*Here's some pretty good lit-crit about what's
gone on in the field for the past 15 years or so.
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0312/onthenet.shtml
James Patrick Kelly weighing in on the subject
I'm wondering if we're starting to see a real
dichotomy now between techno-obsessives
who use communications machines every
day of their lives, and dreamy, slipstreamy
characters who prefer the cultural continuity
of ink on paper.