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Coming Back To Storytelling Around Wood Fire — Virtually.
How social network based on voice is written in our genes.
Your earliest memory from childhood probably never happened, unless there is a story about it.
Recently, we all heard about Clubhouse, an incredibly successful new type of social network based on voice — where people around the world come together to talk, listen and learn from each other in real-time. You can jump in and out of different chats, on various subjects, any time. You can simply listen or choose to throw in your thoughts and emotions.
I realized that Clubhouse’s success is rooted in one experience I made during my childhood.
When I was a little kid, my parents let me spent a few summer vacations in a remote area in the countryside. Electricity was not a common commodity there, so people relied on wood fire during the night.
Making a fire required matches, which were also not a common commodity. Lamps were rare artifacts as well. As soon as someone made a fire, the neighbors would visit to take a piece of burning wood in order to lighten their house as well. The challenging part was to carry the flame along the way, which could be up to a kilometer.
