Let's have your story: Why do we give reasons? (2006)
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Explaining shit - that goes right to the core of our beings as engineers, scientists and hackers. Especially as technology turns ever more into magic, science journalism turns into facile entertainment and attention-spans tend toward zero. The space vehicle for the future is "the story", bypassing analysis, judgement, complexity.
Resonates with me, having found that stories, poetry, drama and theatre are the only ways of communicating complex subjects like cyber-security to ordinary people who have rather little time and care to spare.