i'm a great believer in the idea that technology doesn't really change us. It just makes possible aspects of our personalities or our desires that weren't made possible before. I mean, fan fiction being the perfect example. You know, there's nothing new about fan fiction. Before the end on nat it was underground,. you know, sort of by necessity, because there was no real way for it to surface.
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.