AUTHOR: Sarah Cove TITLE: The "dominant" storyteller of the future DATE: 3/24/2006 04:17:00 PM ----- BODY:

Is the internet opening up a space for more marginal stories to exist or just increasing the rate at which story emergence and "domination" happens? Or is it just changing the game of story telling? Certain stories that emerge on the Internet will remain marginal, others will dominate, but will there be any pattern to this? Will the means of domination (if you have the dominant story, you dominate worlds) 30 years from now be different? Will strong stories no longer emerge from the government or scientists or the Vatican but from the Internet? And will those who understand this capacity of the Internet dominate? Domination (and I'm not sure I like that word, but can't think of what else to use and don't want to lose my train of thought) came previous from the navy or firearms. In the future, will it appear in the digital space? And what if stories which I dislike or which frighten me (like intelligent design or anti-Semitism) sominate? Who will be the dominant storytellers of the future? How can people prepare to tell their stories in the future?

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