Kurt Vonnegut Live in Second Life on NPR's "The Infinite Mind."

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In August 2006, Kurt Vonnegut was interviewed on public radio from inside the 3-D virtual on-line community Second Life. The broadcast, produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media for "The Infinite Mind" public radio series, was the first to be taped inside a virtual world, and it was the author's last sit-down interview. In Second Life, Vonnegut appeared with "The Infinite Mind" host John Hockenberry in front of an audience of more than 100 avatars from around the world in Lichtenstein Creative Media's 16-acre virtual broadcast center.

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@redeyedwhitewhale 14 жыл бұрын

I have this favorite author who taught me that the purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Three years ago he fell and broke his brain and died. So it goes.

@fantasticsnake 17 жыл бұрын

God Bless you, Mr. Vonnegut

@p1zd3c Ай бұрын

I was in attendance at this interview, in Second Life. It was amazing.

@marseydotes1941 16 жыл бұрын

This is the best interview I've ever seen/heard/read. Shows what a difference it makes when the interviewer is well informed. Thanks!

@trexcellent 17 жыл бұрын

kurt is in heaven now.

@survivurman 10 жыл бұрын

this shit's pretty weird

@staphinfection 17 жыл бұрын

Oh man... I love you Kurt. You have turned my into a "thinker" and a reader, and a musician, and a dreamer, and on and on and on.... I hope your dad visited you at your time of death, and you walked on into the light stuck in your most happiest moment ever.

@eravulgachris 16 жыл бұрын

He really is well informed and it does keep it together very well. Highly enjoyed this interview myself. Here's to Kurt.

@HunterMann 15 жыл бұрын

RIP The Infinite Mind, a radio program that brought many years of enjoyment and enlightenment to so many people. What a shame that for every NPR show like this there are hundreds of poorly written TV programs and poorly researched news programs. There truly is nothing better than National Public Radio. My huge thanks to the staff of The Infinite Mind, HM

@podfunk 15 жыл бұрын

We need his books now more than ever. These are dark, dark days for our planet and Kurt understood man's fallibilities as well as any other writer.

@MrFuznubz 13 жыл бұрын

man kurt was such a genius, i wish i could have met him, he was a super cool guy and i need to read more of his books. may he push up his daisies in peace

@Googlemonkey8 13 жыл бұрын

Kurt Vonnegut changed my life.

@Drbolla345 17 жыл бұрын

Me too, he really is an inspirational and intellectual person. Devastating about his death, he really was a great philospher and change the aspect of my life. Glad i attended that day in Second Life. Really was worth it, exactly as you say.

@MrStupididy 12 жыл бұрын

THIS IS SO WEIRD BUT REALLY COOL.

@MatthewGeoffino 15 жыл бұрын

This man is a god among all human beings. There will never in the history of the world be another Vonnegut.

@migget159 15 жыл бұрын

I live in Wisconsin. I work in a lumber mill there. The people I meet when I walk down the street, they ask me my name and I say: My name is Yon Yonson, I live in Wisconsin...

@54spiritedwill54 16 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. RIP Mr Vonnegut

@MAUL0r1 17 жыл бұрын

he will be missed.

@colonelmatterson 17 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Kurt

@ElDoctorJanItor 12 жыл бұрын

8:23 -- "Which gets him [Bokonon] right off the hook." LOL. Can't tell if the double entendre was intentional...

@user-lw7ep2np3r 3 жыл бұрын

8:23

@adamnetsky 17 жыл бұрын

great interview.....

@streakyology 17 жыл бұрын

rip kurt you were one of the good guys

@KROMO50 7 жыл бұрын

The Infinite Mind was the best show on NPR cant find it anywhere to listen to

@AlexEvansOhio 13 жыл бұрын

So the whole "Second Life" thing, is sort of weird, but when I have this in another tab and am just listening, this is a really solid interview. Nice job.

@renrengrin 13 жыл бұрын

I had to laugh like hell.

@lcmedia 17 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words. If you search for it on Google Video you can download it from there. Best - LCMedia

@Thelostcup 17 жыл бұрын

Most of his books are satire, man. He's a brilliant writer. R.I.P Kurt.

@lcmedia 17 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. Please remember, this video represents a 2-D representation of a live event with the same limitations as any 2-D film/video when capturing a live event. For those who were at the live (virtual) event, with Vonnegut, they were able to ask questions of Vonnegut, and discuss with others there. The video is a 2-D way of capturing the event, and as such, things like lip movement become far more apparent than for those who were there live...

@ptimusk 17 жыл бұрын

He loved cell phones. And so it goes. A reader of Mr Vonnegut in the 1970's Canada.

@4lung Жыл бұрын

holy shit

@zverina 11 жыл бұрын

This is a very good interview. Only one small and possibly confusing interviewer gaff is at 33:20. Taking an audience question with the abbreviation SF in it, interviewer misreads it as "San Francisco" when it was obviously intended to mean "Science Fiction." Poo-tee-weet?

@jimbarris5460 4 жыл бұрын

This is the strangest strangest blend of things

@zverina 11 жыл бұрын

it was a different pre-television world back then. the Monkeyhouse stories were written for slick magazines at a time when short stories were still a preferred form of escapist entertainment and KV was catering to that market.

@blueknuckle 17 жыл бұрын

So it goes.

@Cledus2000 5 ай бұрын

Kurt, you're a lucky bastard now, too. You don't have the burden of witnessing this mess.

@lcmedia 17 жыл бұрын

(Consider, when you attend a concert, can you always see the lips of the singer? Sometime, in an arena, you can barely see them on the stage.) That said, the technology will evolve. (remember, the first films had no sound!) Thanks again for your comment, and best. - LCMedia

@FatManRedemption 11 жыл бұрын

The Bradbury Story was from The Martian Chronicles. That book has more funny moments in it than I would have expected from Ray Bradbury. Then again, it's only the second book of his I've read.

@NutNapalm 17 жыл бұрын

I think it was a Perfect final interview. From his birth in an era where electricity was a rare commodity to a virtual world generated by machines in one lifetime. Sometimes we have horrible dictators and morons, othertimes, things are good.

@davidvwilliamson 14 жыл бұрын

you got the scansion of the end of the poem wrong: it should be nice, nice, very nice so many different people in the same device

@MissCedarbridge1 14 жыл бұрын

this game is awsome people... Im not sure but I think I know that man

@F33bs 15 жыл бұрын

and so on...

@hamnchee 17 жыл бұрын

i have vista and second life works on it. ...sometimes it shuts down my computer, but usually i'm fine.

@dalcon555 17 жыл бұрын

i like to believe slaughterhouse-5 that kurt vonnegut is not dead hes perfectly fine in another moment in time.... i like to believe that the warrior mind for the counter-culture

@tsokay 17 жыл бұрын

That was his wished-for epitaph.

@PanamaSneakers 9 жыл бұрын

Pretty decent interview.

@youlosez 14 жыл бұрын

why do I find out about these great authors when they die! I'm a fool for not reading these books at a younger age ;(. I wanted to send him a letter...

@IrrigatedPancake 17 жыл бұрын

For some reason I never imagined that Vonnegut and O'Reilly could have existed at the same time.

@kinzaahmed3857 8 жыл бұрын

shucks I missed it!

@UFOBoy99 14 жыл бұрын

@Icantseepolla I love that book so much

@MatthewGeoffino 15 жыл бұрын

My name is Yon Yonson.

@MrFuznubz 13 жыл бұрын

@beischquee OH MY GOD i would love to have him teach me at some point in my life, it would be such an amazing experience.. i am deeply sorry to hear of his passing, but greatfull that i have experienced his works. he is inspirational

@smillar98 16 жыл бұрын

Great public schools with 12 or less students per class.

@wercs6326 2 жыл бұрын

2022

@zverina 11 жыл бұрын

you might be right. i don't see anyone out there assuming the mantle of creative compassionate critique the way KV did...

@philyoufool 14 жыл бұрын

breakfast of champions??? ummm what about his short stories???? harrison bergeron?? welcome to the monkey house??? another one i cant remember the name for that involves playing chess with real people as the pieces, absolute genius

@tsokay 17 жыл бұрын

My previous comment was, I mean.

@tokyocooney 17 жыл бұрын

This medium had promise Im sure, but for me it would have been fine as a radio broadcast only.... avatars do nothing for me. While this concept is cool, the oint of seeing someones face is that it ADDS meaning to what they are saying.

@rforce1 17 жыл бұрын

GREAT!!!! But did you know even SL-Transformers do Yoga: Search: Transformers Yoga

@MFRedeemerp2 17 жыл бұрын

can i get this recording somewhere?

@AaronCross760 17 жыл бұрын

i have vista and second life works fine, just needed a video driver upgrade..

@AnthonyBastien 16 жыл бұрын

i do believe he is part of the viewers karass or possibly theyre karass depending on theyre intention. But he may be a wrang wrang- whis is according to bokonon a person who steers people away from a line of speculation. Just a thought.

@VicInNocal 14 жыл бұрын

@migget159 "this is true. but unfortunately a book won't change anything. maybe if kurt made mtv shows instead..." Ain't that the damn sad truth.

@rachelthompson9324 5 жыл бұрын

Fans of Kurt: check out my short story collection, Stalking Kilgore Trout listed under Rachel C Thompson

@coupdeforce 11 жыл бұрын

He died 8 months after this was recorded.

@tsokay 17 жыл бұрын

The only proof he ever needed of the existence of God was music.

@browncoat3000 17 жыл бұрын

Kurt was a brilliant man, and I disagree, I think he was personally happy. Just disappointed in everyone else.

@BlindCharade 14 жыл бұрын

@philyoufool or the guy with telekinesis

@stifledvoice 7 жыл бұрын

is second life still a thing? too bad vonnegut isn't anymore.

@MaryPinkHair 3 жыл бұрын

LOL I don't think this website is for people to just have fun.

@tomlubanovic 17 жыл бұрын

That's a funny quote, considering Vonnegut was a staunch atheist.

@cathrynw 16 жыл бұрын

kilgore trout.

@migget159 15 жыл бұрын

this is true. but unfortunately a book won't change anything. maybe if kurt made mtv shows instead....

@gopher001 16 жыл бұрын

no its not

@trinthakias 17 жыл бұрын

did u know him personally? .....no?!?!then shut up, Dr. Phil

@LauraSeabrook 16 жыл бұрын

But is this a karass or a granfalloon?

@bgbreakdown 12 жыл бұрын

Geez, John! Shut up about yourself and you're cartoony thing. Talk to Kurt Vonnegut about Kurt Vonnegut. Cardinal rule of any interview: you get minus 5 points every time you use the word "I". This is not about you.