I was thinking today about science fiction, and how it has always been the fiction of ideas. These science fiction novelists have always been pumping out new ideas, and trying to place them in the context of a narrative in order to make them more easily digestable by the public.

Becuase the pay for a novelist over the past 50 years has been, on the average, pretty poor, with only those that make the best seller lists making anything like a decent income, most of these science fiction novelists toiled day and night for very little income or even critical reward.

For instance Phillip K Dick used to pump out novel after novel to try to keep the wolves at the door, and these earned him just enough to get by when he was alive. After his death, the ideas and plot lines in these stories have earned holywood Billions of dollars. The list of films based on Dicks work is staggering.

Now, imagine the time Now, if you can. These days, writers can sit down day and night and pump out ideas, but these days they can do them in bogs. All of these Novel ideas are then indexed, and if they are searched for by people then they have a chance of generating income via PPC advertising etc.

Having new, novel ideas would allow you to build a massive long tail, well ahead of the curce that should pay of as people start to search for the new terms that these articles contain.

Say you coin the terms InfoAchons, and write a blog post about some Archytype based digital entities that start to gain an autonomous hold of the internet. It could be written in any form, even as a pseudo factual peice. As long as the keyword density was right, it would be spidered by the search engines, and found by people interested by the concept. Words locked in paper may be dead words.

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