Future of StoryTelling (FoST)
Hosted by Charles Melcher and Carolyn Merriman and Garrett Crowe and Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli and Tsuki Carlson and Meghal Janardan and Charlie Melcher · Future of StoryTelling
4.0from 378 ratings
- 166
- Episodes
- 62
- Transcribed
- 378
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Future of StoryTelling (FoST)
The Future of StoryTelling (FoST) is a passionate community of people from the worlds of media, technology, and communications who believe that better stories can create a better future. Join FoST Founder and CEO Charlie Melcher for a series of conversations with expert storytellers from a range of disciplines to learn how they’re navigating the changing media landscape, focusing on how stories can help create positive and lasting change in the world. Conversations address a breadth of topics, from immersive storytelling to emerging technologies, the neuroscience of narrative, and much more. www.futureofstorytelling.org
- Publisher
- Future of StoryTelling
- Category
- arts · business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Mar 2020
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
62 of 166 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why the Medium Matters — David Byrne, Revisited
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Anatomy of a Welcoming Space — David Rockwell
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Power of Deep Story — Bob Rogers
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Why the Medium Matters — David Byrne, Revisited
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But what they're really getting at is, yes, who are we and how do we imagine ourselves? How do we see ourselves in the world? And how do we make decisions? All these kinds of things. Yeah. I often have been struck by that, too, that when you get to the heart of it, both artists and scientists are asking those similar kind of big questions about existence and who we are and why we're here. In your book, How Music Works, which, by the way, I've loved reading, I was struck by that opening sort of theory that you present, which is that art is created by the context. Well, first, could you explain that, what you meant by that? […]
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- David Byrne
- David Rockwell
- Bob Rogers
- Yves Jacquier
- Jeffrey Seller
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.9 / 5
- 331 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 47 ratings
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- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 66
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Who hosts Future of StoryTelling (FoST)?
Charles Melcher and Carolyn Merriman and Garrett Crowe and Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli and Tsuki Carlson and Meghal Janardan and Charlie Melcher host the show. Published by Future of StoryTelling.
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