Technology has created forms of story telling that leave less to the imagination. podcasting is just really radio with a different deliveries, it's just audio. I was looking for sound effects and other ways to it more than just listening an when they call a guest, they interview someone, you'll hear the phone ringing. O, those are io primitive shout outs to the early days of radio. So i think, i'm fascinated by the fact, and when you think about it, i'm not terribly surprised by the fact that these two things are happening at the same time.
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.