It will also involve political change, as younger generations comfortable with the ambiguities of Big Data come into their own, so they can learn to discern what is valuable in personal experience and commonsense narratives, and what should be discarded.

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As for our "level of obsession, " there is a genre of nonfiction known as "memoir" or "autobiography, " in which authors relate narratives based on personal experience.

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No complicated narratives, no personal themes, no innovations in techniques or cinematography or shots, no daring in the decisions about structure or mixing mediums, and the topics must be serious and yet usually not too divisive in their implications and conclusions.

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