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Literary news flashes in the year 2050:

Flash! – Microsoft’s grid computer Alphabetamania defeats incumbent champion Lao Cruz to win this year’s Nobel Prize for literature.

Flash! – The World Court rules that media giant Zizaki cannot legally use a computer program to generate all known combinations of all known symbols in all known languages in order to claim copyright protection on everything not yet written.

Flash! – Conceptual artist John Smith from Portland, Oregon has successfully encoded the full text of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in a DNA limited edition issue of the species Triticum aestivum to be distributed by Midwest Farm, Lawn, Garden and Tractor.

Flash! – An archeological team sponsored by The Literary Trusts Corporation has located another cache of unpublished original works by Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Rumi, and Li Bai.