Once upon a time yet to come… The ability to craft and tell stories diffused through world populations, faster than ever. Both the knowledge of how to construct and tell stories and the tools for building your experience at storytelling became cheaper, easier, faster and more convenient. So more people told more stories to more people than ever in history. That trend continued.
So Phil made nine predictions...
1. Everyone tells stories well. Storytelling knowledge and skills previously reserved for expensive and exclusive film schools and writer workshops will become standard K-12 curricula.
2. Storytelling quality soars. Literacy will raise expectations.
3. From Art to Engineering. Professional education will advance the art.
4. Stories for every occasion. Other information will become wrapped in storytelling.
5. Machines spin tales. More storytelling will be automated.
6. Wherever you go, there you author stories. More storytelling will start with mobile products.
7. We Author Together. More authoring will be massively collaborative.
8. Storytelling gets things done. Spielers (oral storytellers) and tummlers (people who urge an audience to participate) will become professions outside of the arts.
9. Theater and play at its roots. New storytelling media will evolve to build on old media.
Happily Ever After,
your protagonist,
Phil Wolff
narrative engineer
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This is part of a longer conversation about the future of storytelling craft on Quora. http://b.qr.ae/1eyoRUh
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The Future of Storytelling
1. The Future of Storytelling
Once upon a time yet to come…
2. Once upon a time yet to come…
The ability to craft and tell
stories diffused through world
populations, faster than ever.
3. Both the knowledge of how to
construct and tell stories and the
tools for building your experience at
storytelling became
cheaper, easier, faster and more
convenient.
4. So more people told more
stories to more people than ever
in history.
7. 1.
Storytelling knowledge and skills
previously reserved for expensive
and exclusive film schools and writer
workshops will become standard K-
12 curricula.
Everyone tells stories well
13. In the US, at least, we each see
hundreds of adverts daily, so we
develop ad blindness, ignoring the
bland and generic. It takes
something special for an ad to
break through.
19. We're now ready to engineer and
manufacture stories, able to
teach creators how to architect
and construct tales to meet
specific goals, specifications, and
constraints.
20. Storytelling will also become
interdisciplinary.
We'll see Storytelling for
[INSERT DISCIPLINE HERE]
become standard for every
university major.
22. An annual report becomes a
collection of short stories about
projects and their heroic
employees.
23. Your monthly phone bill recounts
the story of your month, with the
people you talked to, the places
you went, the games you played,
revealing life themes.
25. We already have bots that
generate news stories from
sports stats and scores.
26. We are awash in opportunities
to continue this trend.
27. Natural language processing
technologies and deeper
understanding of story structure
patterns hold the promise to
broaden the range of stories
machines can tell without human
assistance.
39. There may be value in artistic
credit, but we'll also see wiki culture
where a hundred people chip in to
make the best version of a given
element. Community will emerge
around the crafting and the
consumption of these stories.
40. 8.
Spielers (oral storytellers) and
tummlers (people who urge an
audience to participate) will
become professions outside of the
arts.
Storytelling gets things done
43. Right now we hope to find
people gifted in these arts...
44. In the future credentialed
storytellers will have
certifications, licenses and metrics
that attest to their professional
ability to present stories in ways
that achieve goals.
49. Whole categories of storytellers
face job loss as their services
become commodities, as they
fail to adjust
50. When everyone tells stories,
when things tell stories,
you must be exceptionally
talented and skilled to prosper
as an author, a spieler, or a
tummler
51. How will you tell this story?
What roles will you play?
What will this future mean for
the people and causes that
matter to you?
52. Happily Ever After,
your protagonist,
Phil Wolff
narrative engineer
http://twitter.com/evanwolf
http://facebook.com/philwolff
http://linkedin.com/in/philwolff
http://quora.com/Phil-Wolff
pwolff@dijest.com +15104448234 skype:evanwolf