Storytelling

In the video, the essayist suggests that because of storytelling it has become easier to read and write and is one key factor that helps us survive. In fact, he says that it is how babies learn language, and attributes to how people come to understand the world around them as they become adults. Storytelling itself comes from the work of Herodotus about 2500 years ago, and was originally used to keep records more efficiently, strategically plan voyages, and to give descriptions of distant lands. Nowadays, storytelling is used to describe an event, and spread the word of it.

The essayist basically says that, in today's Internet age, there's a bad news and a good news. The bad news is that, thanks to technology, people's attention span has gotten shorter and that the Internet takes away our time. Fortunately, the Internet also gives us back time by being able to take in even more information in "long reads" with faster internet speeds and better Internet connections. …show more content…
Short articles are quick and to the point and that's that, while long articles are more eloquent and expressive. For example, if you have to do a current event assignment and find two articles, would you rather read the short one which gives you little chance of having interest in the topic, or the long one where you indulge in every