In this Sunday’s “Ideas” programme on National Radio Chris Laidlaw pieces together a show about many of the different aspects of virtual worlds. The programme is available for four week on demand (see Ideas for 19 August 2007 streaming), or as a downloadable file (see Ideas for 19 August 2007 mp3).

The four excerpts in the 50 minute programme are

• discussion with World Wide Fund for Nature New Zealand’s Executive Director about a green a space on Faketown, a new virtual world. The green space is encouraging young people to get active on climate change. See www.faketown.com/wwf
• surprising facts about people who inhabit virtual worlds from the Center for the Digital Future, University of Southern California.
• an introduction to virtual world Second Life with Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual worlds since the early 1980s.
• Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director Royal Institution and Professor Synaptic Pharmocology at Oxford University, a whistleblower on the dangers of virtual worlds and their long-terms affects on society.

Laidlaw warns the firewall between you and virtual reality may go, with frightening connotations. He said further programmes on this topic will be coming.

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