How Has Automation Affected Modern Story Telling?

[Name of the Student] [Name of the Institution] [Date of Submission] How has automation affected modern story telling? In the movies, in the media, and in modern discourse? Story telling is a part of what makes us human. While automation has made a lot of human skills redundant, it has been unable to diminish the appeal of a good story told well. Stories are a representation of how people perceive the world around them, how they idealize some things, and how they wonder what would have happened if certain constraints - such as time and space, did not bind them. In this paper I will argue that automation has had an impact on story-telling in terms of bringing human imagination to life, but unlike the many different human skills it has replaced, automation has been unable to replace humans in terms of their skills in storytelling. Automation has affected modern story telling by allowing story-tellers to bring their fictional world to life, by story tellers retelling age-old tales in different ways - adapting them to the modern audience, and making the stories more profound and less black and white. Stories have served many different purposes throughout human history - they have been a means to socialize, to share thoughts, to teach morals, and most of all to engage. Today, in this modern age, story-telling is an even more important skill. the reason for this is that the information age is all about communicating ideas and knowledge. With so many different channels and sources of ideas and knowledge, ideas that stand out are those that are told with the help of a story. How an idea is communicated and the story is told has a bearing on the viability of the idea. The appeal of a good story relies on the imagery and the language that it uses to describe the story elements - the context, the characters, the plot, and the various underlying ideas that are a manifestation of the authors' perceptions. Stories are told through discourse. Stuart Hall aptly summarizes the idea to say that: 'reality exists outside language, but it is constantly mediated by and through language: and what we can know and say has to be produced in and through discourse' CITATION Hal01 \l 1033 (Hall). Computers don't have the skills to tell a story, to engage in a way to inspire and to excite. However, automation has had an impact on the way in which stories are told. Visual tools which are used to generate the worlds in which story characters live are brought to life in detail. Take the example of the fairy tale Snow White. Told as a children's fable since time immemorial, modern interpretations of snow white have changed the way in which the story of snow white has been retold, connected to other fables, and adapted for the modern audience. The movie has had multiple versions of the story, where the first animated version was made in 1916. Over the years, animated versions of story have been made, but automation and advances in technology have allowed story-tellers to adapt the story and make different versions of the story. Stories such as Snow White are representation of ideas and perceptions. Hodges says in his article that ' ...letters would be used as symbols for numerical quantities. The rules for adding and multiplying them would follow from the assumptio...