How Much Work Do You Have to Do?

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The rise of visual media, moviesa the bingibl miny series, onetplix or amazon prime, there is a certain laziness to that compared to a book. And sometimes poncasts, they invite multiple listening because you want to think about it some more and try to figure out something that you didn't notice the first time. It's feature an a bug for different people at different times and sone just want to lay back and entertained, and other times you want to be immersed in something that's very thought provoking. So i think it makes sense that they're both happening at the same time. E yor hungry.

Once it was The Shadow radio show; now it's the podcast Serial. Is every old storytelling medium new again? Frank Rose, author of The Sea We Swim In, concedes that some things remain sacred--from the power of a great hook to the hope that great stories never end. But he also thinks the Internet has led to new kinds of stories, ones that are not just entertaining, but immersive, and whose worlds are more richly imaginative than ever--even as they leave increasingly little to our imagination.