The Future of Storytelling
November 21st, 2008Check out this article: MIT Media Lab Creates Center for Future Storytelling.
From Media Lab director Frank Moss:
“Storytelling is at the very root of what makes us uniquely human. It is how we share our experiences, learn from our past, and imagine our future”
So true. The article describes how MIT’s creation of a new Center for Future Storytelling will revolutionize the art:
“With the establishment of this Center–whose research program begins immediately–the Media Lab and Plymouth Rock Studios will collaborate to revolutionize how we tell our stories, from major motion pictures to peer-to-peer multimedia sharing. By applying leading-edge technologies to make stories more interactive, improvisational, and social, researchers will seek to transform audiences into active participants in the storytelling process, bridging the real and virtual worlds, and allowing everyone to make their own unique stories with user-generated content on the Web. Center research will also focus on ways to revolutionize imaging and display technologies, including developing next-generation cameras and programmable studios, making movie production more versatile and economic.”
Our kids are growing up in a pretty cool world… Efforts such as this help me feel optimistic about their future.
