Great Regulars: We expect these anxieties in a decade

leading up to a new millennium, not in a decade following, but if you trace the arc of the last 10 years, that's how it has been. Y2K, the disputed 2000 presidential election, 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, economic disorder, even the rise of Barack Obama: All of these contribute to an era supersaturated with upheaval, sped up, in a constantly evolving transitional mode. Against such a backdrop, is it any wonder that an industry in disarray--the print industry--would see change as danger, chaos as risk?

from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: After a decade of fear, we're connected to writing in new ways

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