The Infinite Mind/LCMedia Online Store : CDs/Transcripts of award-winning public radio show : Through the Looking Glass Part 4
This week on The Infinite Mind, the fourth installment of our special series, "Through the Looking Glass," examining the world of virtual on-line communities.
This week, in part four, we examine The Transmission of Experience, as host John Hockenberry is joined live in Second Life by author Kurt Vonnegut, whose writing has chronicled the intersection of humanity and technology, from his books Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle, to his latest work Man without a Country.
What does the literary titan from the typewriter era make of this new revolutionary medium?
n the second half of the show, executive producer of The Infinite Mind, Bill Lichtenstein offers his essay, “The Transmission of Experience” which examines the potential of this new medium of 3D virtual reality and the transmission of experience over a digital cable. What does this revolutionary medium can do that books, radio, TV, film and the internet just can't?
Finally, John Hockenberry looks back on this landmark four-part series.
