The Future of Storytelling
Posted under: Today, I voted on a session at this year’s SWSX Conference. In case you don’t know, this is one of the premiere technology conferences. One of the more interesting panels being considered is called “Interactive Narratives — Creating the Future of Literature.”
Here’s the description of the panel:
Literature need no longer be defined and confined by the objects that contain it—books and magazines and pages. New Media technologies like Augmented Reality, Transmedia Storytelling, and interactive stories offer new ways for narratives to be created and experienced. How can writers and developers work together to create new forms of literature?
I encountered similar thoughts about the future of literature in the most recent issue of Wired Magazine. The article, written by Chris Anderson, boldly pronounced that “the web is dead, but long live the internet.” He explained that we use the Internet to stream movies on Netflix, listen to radio on Pandora, log into Facebook using an iPhone app and so forth. The desktop website is losing its significance, in other words.
Instead pen, ink paper — and the traditional publisher, so many more options are available for writers to tell their stories.
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