“In the 2000s, there will be only answers.”

In the 2000s, there will be only answers. The demand will be such that there will only be answers. All texts will be answers, in fact. I believe that man will be literally drowned in information, in constant information. About his body, his corporeal future, his health, his family life, his salary, his leisure.

It’s not far from a nightmare. There will be nobody reading anymore.

In 1985, Marguerite Duras gave her predictions for the future to the French publication Les Inrocks, and the translation is as eerily prescient as it is beautiful.