Brent Hartinger is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. He can be found on Twitter as @BrentHartinger I've been saying for years that if you want to know what's going to be on television in five or ten years, look at what's happening in books today. Like clockwork, we authors always predict exactly where the mass culture is heading. Okay, so maybe we didn't predict the outrageous, depressing mess that so much of reality television has become. We authors tend to predict the things that appeal to, um, slightly higher aspects of human nature. Take the whole issue of [...]