I spent most of last week in Austin, Texas for SxSW: Interactive, where I was lucky enough to sit in on a panel with some pretty bright dudes from The Barbarian Group, Preloaded, The Secret Location and Stitch Media. The panel was called “The Future Of Visual Storytelling Is Interactive… Or Is It?” and contained some pretty cogent thinking about exactly what the future holds for non-linear narrative, filmmakers, storytellers, and the web. I was all prepared to come back here and do a bit of a post-mortem for those who missed it, but then I saw this:

… which does a better job summing things up than I ever could.

The sketch was done by the awesome Austin Kleon. Check out his Flickr stream for more SxSW summaries.