Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling

http://www.ted.com iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

• Category

  Science & Technology

[TrippyLantern]

When did TED become a conference for Hipster's with iPads?

[dantenorth]

So the future of storytelling is a combination of tweets and fb posts all portrayed in net/txt speak? God help us all...

[hery xman]

Superb video. I had been so baffled seeing my friend change from being a loser to a ladies man. He began attracting girls over night. He pretended he failed to realize. He ultimately came clean on Friday. Turns out he uses the Jake Ayres Master Attraction Formula. Google it and you'll find it... He's seeing a sexy chick... Lucky man!

[danyterrence]

Funny how we all love books, but what he says isn't wrong. We are watching this on our ipad, pc or phone. I mean, he isn't wrong at all.

[jerjer16able]

taiwan i love taiwan

[Erectoralporicy]

Annnnnd this is what happens when somebody who doesn't know anything about the history of literature presents a lecture on... Literature.

[leonpacifist1988]

de fuq????????? this is just a commercial to use iPad!!!

[Ananda Santiago]

Genial!

[basilleonardo]

So he knows how to access his apps in order. We are still in the earliest phase of these technologies and it will be some time before we move from a derivative collage (not a story) like this to actual creative and original use of new media. I only hope there are still people around with the attention span to appreciate it when it comes along. Right now many (certainly not all) students confuse stringing together media they found on Google with thorough exploration and understanding of a topic.

[hyleesherry]

Does anyone know what's the music around 0:55. Thanks a lot.

[FreezeDrums]

Why all the dislikes? This guy is brilliant!