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

In the last of three episodes, Nick looks at bigger changes in our physical perceptions, and experiences a new medium – Virtual Reality, as developed in the Â鶹Éç 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 EM 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?

Producer: Stephen Garner

Made for Â鶹Éç Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2019.