Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. This week Joe Sabia talks about “The Technology of Storytelling.”
I had to watch this one a couple times. I bet you will too!
What did you think about Joe’s storytelling method? Was it effective? How might you use technology to tell better stories?
Until next time,
Cynthia Patton
I don’t think the point is to tell better stories. Good ones are enduring, move us, make us laugh, reveal deep human truths.
The method for telling them doesn’t make them better stories. Technology doesn’t help us tell better stories, but it can provide an effective way to tell a story.
In a weird way, his use of technology takes us back to the days when story telling was an oral tradition; maybe even back to the days when it was visual, as in the days of the cave painters.
Robert McKee says that story is a metaphor for life. I think one has to use that criteria for story and then decide how best to tell it.