When language became a part of how we related to one another as human beings, oral story telling gave way to the written word. That technology of stylus and papyrus was a sea change for how we told stories. And now we're in the digital age, a and d, and that's another advancement. So i've embraced ie. When we brought reading rainbow back, we brought it for the digital generation. Riht, we used television to advance reading, to cement the relationship between a child who is learning how to read and an literature.
What science concepts have we not seen in fiction? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice sit down with actor and national treasure LeVar Burton to discuss future science, storytelling, and to answer fan questions.
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