Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature

At Wired, Bruce Sterling lists "Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature." It's a really good list because, although each item is very concisely stated, the enormous implications are clear. There's a real sense of a pending apocalypse in this list. Here's a sampling:

• Intellectual property systems failing
• Barriers to publication entry have crashed, enabling huge torrent of subliterary and/or nonliterary textual expression
• The Gothic fate of poor slain Poetry is the specter at this dwindling feast