This article is about the new innovation of technology and the future of storytelling and how it just may be in a "Golden Age".
The author does not provide a sense of exactly how and why it has become a golden age. He touches briefly but lacks the real "in-depth" detail that stories need to reel in an audience. From a personal opinion, it almost loses my attention a few times. But, through samples of HBO and Netflix as well as touching on virtual reality and new innovations, he establishes his point clearly. We are in a time of innovation for journalism and technology for all.
The authors points are clear with vivid samples of entertainment and storytelling changing as we speak. He supports his claims well through evidence of the modern world today. His claims such as "This is the opportunity we all have in front of us: to redefine storytelling for an always-on world" to portray an "opportunity in front of us that we are to take advantage of. However, He just seems to trail off in interest. He jumps from a topic of Netflix to Google glass and then finishes off with broadcasting again. So while the points were understood and clearly made, I lost interest as a reader and felt as if the claims were somewhat "tossed around".
Overall, while the story was clear and the point was made, it just didn't provide the spark that readers love to read. The author argues how Netflix has overtaken other strands of entertainment in which people pay way more than necessary. Also, in journalism that today that the “digital, always-on” world is a new Golden Age that once again presents new opportunities that would "pioneer" new storytelling. In other words, we are at a turning point in journalism and broadcasting, and its a golden time.
Cite: Golden Age Article
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/digital-innovation-golden-age/
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