Is the Long-Form Story in Danger?
This article from the Washington Post discusses the potential effects of new technology on the narrative form.
There’s endless talk in the news media about the next killer app. Maybe Twitter really will change the world. Maybe the next big thing will be just an algorithm, like Google’s citation-ranking equation. But Smith is betting that there will still be a market, somehow, for what he does. Narrative isn’t merely a technique for communicating; it’s how we make sense of the world. The storytellers know this.
They know that the story is the original killer app.
