“The Internet represents the greatest story telling technology since the development of language.”

— Bran Ferren

Context: The Internet represents the greatest story telling technology since the development of language. It will be far more important than reading and writing as a purposeful tool. Everything that is enabled by story telling will be enabled by the Internet.

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