Glorianna Davenport's RTE science lecture The Storied Machine will be broadcast tonight at 7.30 on RTE Radio1 and wiil be available on the web here. I attended the lecture last week in RTE and while it was a fascinating talk about the future of interactive narrative it seemed to miss the central point, that is that art moves us because it takes us out of our experience and we see how someone else sees the world and this can be surprising, shocking or even alienating, but it forces us out of our comfort zone or presents us with a wonderful viewpoint we could never achieve alone. This is why I love art and great art can change the way we view the world for ever. Of necessity this is a top down process not an interactive one.