This is a ghost story

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This is a ghost story.

The internet has killed the mysteries of childhood.

Everyone has a camera in their phone. Yet no

convincing ghost photos.

That was until recently when every Australian newspaper for

the past 150 years was digitised.

Arthur Green died in my childhood home on Christmas Eve 1914

at the age of 20.

Arthur Green died in my childhood home on Christmas Eve 1914

at the age of 20.

Probably in my bedroom

+data +context

+stephen king

= My house is haunted

FACT: We’ve made more data these last few years than in all of history.

Why do we assume any of it is interesting?

Technology has destroyed mostmovie plots.

Evernote.

TripAdvisor.

Facebook.

Google maps has made “losing yourself” near on impossible.

We used to tell stories. (closed loops)

Now we need to put our audience inside stories. (open loops)

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