Vertical soap operas for your phone have taken over film and TV production, and they may soon need no humans at all.
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By Daniel Kolitz
Read by James Patrick Cronin
Narration produced by Tanya Pérez
Engineered by Anj Vancura
Illustration by Tim O’Brien