The future of publishing could be a beautiful utopia, but we have to fight for it to exist first

I have been thinking about the future of publishing for years, and I can almost see it.

I have a vision. 

It's one that's haunted me for years…maybe haunted is not the right word, but in the absence of the right words, I have no choice but to use the ones that I have access to, and haunted feels right to me. 

I've seen it in fits and starts, like somebody is turning on a fritzing light and illuminating a great darkness in my brain for a seco…