> Isn't this already fulfilled by nature documentaries? Yes, a David Attenborough or Jacques Cousteau can make the natural world come alive. But an interactive

> Isn't this already fulfilled by nature documentaries? Yes, a David Attenborough or Jacques Cousteau can make the natural world come alive. But an interactive digital platform will enable very different forms of storytelling. > seeing and hearing what a tiger hears through your digital display is not the same Of course not, just as being a Masai tribesman for a day or even living with them for three years as a peace corps volunteer is not the same as herding cows in Kenya. While stories never transport you into the real world, we all love the idea of platform 9-3/4. They serve different cognitive functions. >I would wager that digitally experiencing nature from our comfortable cities does not raise that same connection to nature that one gets from actually being out there and experiencing it with _all_ of their senses. Too broad a brush in my view. For example, there are things that you can do digitally that you can't do in person. However deep you go into a forest, you will never see it with a tiger's eyes because your bodies are different and your brain is different. Forget tigers and forests, you experience your home differently from a dog or cat that you have as a pet. Seeing your home through their eyes - however crudely - will be an act of interspecies empathy that you will never get through other means. It's possible some creatures are so different that their world will be incomprehensible to us even if we stream their senses 24/7. We won't know until we try. It remains an empirical question as to how much of that gap is bridgeable. > to the point that they want to change their behaviours to protect it I don't think we are at a point in human history when changing individual behaviors will save the planet, either from climate change or from ecological collapse. We need large scale political action with laws that have teeth and means of enforcing them at a planetary scale. The problem I am trying to solve here (or rather, claim as one needing solving) is a different one: how to transport ourselves into the bodies of other creatures? It's the animal equivalent of reading Dostoevsky to understand Russia - a problem very different from pouring billions into strengthening your computer systems because Russians are hacking your elections.