i like to argue, with no facts whatever, that our brain is probably designed for listening to stories. And pattern seeking really is a story telling s a form er. It's trying to make cohesive coherence gives me coul make coherent. I your mind a set of events that may or may not go together. When they do, though, it becomes much, as you say, much easir to remember. And it's work compelling. A lot of the new products that are basically internet marketed are stories about the founders,. and in their narrative of how they got interested in changing business. i find that fascinating. You know, millennials in particular, and i'm certainly not one either
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.