Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Anywhere - Episode 3

Nick Baker’s collection of programmes and interviews reflects on
how the impact of technology has changed, from the dawn of
language to the age of virtual reality.


In this final episode, ‘Anywhere’, Nick looks at bigger changes
in our physical perceptions, and experiences a new medium –
Virtual Reality, as developed in the BBC Virtual Reality hub.


But there’s a different, more subtle way in which digital
technology changes our perception of personal space, and that
idea’s probed in an edition of ‘The Digital Human’ presented by
Aleks Krotoski, called ‘Between’.


Then, a warning from literature, and from history. Stephen Fry
and Nick Baker discuss E.M. Forster’s 1909 novella, ‘The Machine
Stops’, which envisages a physical world changed, if not
destroyed by technology. But what happens when that technology
breaks down?


Presenter: Nick Baker Produced by Stephen Garner. Made for BBC
Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2019.