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An Irresistible And Enchanting Journey Through Human HistoryFrom MankindS Earliest Fires To The Latest Smart PhonesThat Tells The Surprising And Untold Story Of Storytelling.Joan Didion Told Us, We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live. And Yet, The Story Of Stories Has Never Been Told Until Now. Mit Technology Pioneer Kevin Ashton Was At The Forefront Of The Digital Revolution That Led To The Invention Of The Smartphone, The Ultimate Storytelling Device. This Latest Technology In The Long Arc Of Human Storytelling Allows Anyone, For The First Time In History, To Tell Stories To Everyone. In The Story Of Stories, Ashton Tells The Untold Story Of Storytelling. The Result Is An EyeOpening, Compelling Journey Through The Eight Great Revolutions Of Storytelling, All Of Which Follow A Simple Pattern: Each Major New Storytelling Tool Increases The Number Of People Who Can Share Stories And The Number Of People With Whom Those Stories Can Be Shared.Our First NightFires Created The Earliest Audiences For Spoken Stories. Language Did Not Lead Us To Stories; Stories Led Us To Language. In Time, The Development Of Rhyme, Song, And Other Mnemonic Devices Allowed Those Spoken Stories To Be Preserved For Generations; Pictures Drawn On Cave Walls Turned Preservation Into Permanence, Telling Stories We Still Experience Thousands Of Years Later; Writing Enabled Storytellers To Spread Tales To Faraway Places; The Chinese Invented Printing With Moveable Metal Type Around 700 Ce; The Toltecs Independently Invented It At About The Same Time; 750 Years Later Gutenberg Independently Invented It Again, Adding A Converted Wine Press To Create The Mass Production Of Mass Communication. Over Time, Printing Presses Increased The Number Of Storytellers And The Size Of Their Audiences By Many Orders Of Magnitude, A Trend Which Led Us To Great Revolutions, And Electric, Then Electronic, Then Digital Storytelling And All Our Storytelling Tools Of TodayAnd TomorrowS.In This Remarkable Book, More Than TwentyFive Years In The Making, Ashton Looks At The Development Of Human Storytelling To Help Us Understand Where We Are In The Latest Iteration That Is The Digital Era. Drawing On Examples From Art, Literature, Music, And Pop Culture, From The Bible To Bon Jovi, Aristotle To Artificial Intelligence, Frederick Douglass To Facebook, And Cave Paintings To Cinema, The Story Of Stories Is A Passionate And Crucial Exploration Of How Stories And The Tools We Use To Tell Them Continue To Change Us, Cause Revolutions, And Connect Us To Each Other And Give Our Lives Meaning.
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This book is definitely intriguing, but I felt some sections were a bit heavy to get through. The concepts are profound, yet the language could have been simplified for a wider audience. Still, it's worth picking up if you're into art and history.
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Fatima Al-Mansoori
Not What I Expected
I was excited to read about human art, but this book didn't quite meet my expectations. The topic is fascinating, but it felt disjointed at times, and I struggled to connect with the material. Maybe it’s just not for me.
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Lila Chen
A Deep Dive into Human Creativity
As a history buff, I found 'The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art' absolutely captivating. It dives deep into the evolution of storytelling and how it shapes our culture. The illustrations are stunning, making it a joy to read through.
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