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This is a ghost story.

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This is a ghost story.

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The internet has killed the mysteries of childhood.

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Everyone has a camera in their phone. Yet no

convincing ghost photos.

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That was until recently when every Australian newspaper for

the past 150 years was digitised.

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Arthur Green died in my childhood home on Christmas Eve 1914

at the age of 20.

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Arthur Green died in my childhood home on Christmas Eve 1914

at the age of 20.

Probably in my bedroom

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+data +context

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+stephen king

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= My house is haunted

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

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Why do we assume any of it is interesting?

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Technology has destroyed mostmovie plots.

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Evernote.

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TripAdvisor.

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Facebook.

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

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We used to tell stories. (closed loops)

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