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the original technology for downloading experiences directly into another human's skull.
means A person who tells or writes stories, especially one skilled at holding an audience with narrative.
from A plain English compound, transparent as window glass: "story" plus "teller." "Story" came through Old French "estoire" from Latin "historia" (an account, a history) — the same root that gives us "history," so storytelling and recording the past were once nearly the same act. "Teller" comes from Old English "tellan," which originally meant to count or reckon (a sense surviving in a bank teller) before it slid toward counting out words rather than coins. So a storyteller is, quite literally, someone who counts out a history aloud.
- old job
- Oral epics predate writing by tens of thousands of years
- brain hack
- Stories sync listeners' neural activity to the speaker's
- memory trick
- Facts wrapped in narrative are recalled far better
- survival edge
- Early tales taught dangers without dying to learn them
- every culture
- No known human society exists without storytelling
scheherazade — 1001 nights narrator who told stories for 1001 nights to avoid execution in arabian folklore
uncle remus — character created by joel chandler harris in 1881 who told brer rabbit tales in the american south
garrison keillor — host of a prairie home companion radio show since 1974, known for weekly monologues about lake wobegon