From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

This week, a show about media and space.

Remember way back to, say, 1998, when the most popular medium for old and young alike was television.

And when the most popular place to consume it was your living room.

Today, you're as likely to be at a desk or a Starbucks as your easy chair.

Advances in both technology and design have

altered both how and where you get the news. So this week, we decided to focus on the where.

If this seems a bit abstract, well, we used to feel that way, but now we don't. WNYC, the

nation's largest public radio station and where on the media is produced, is moving.

Ever since the 1920s, when New York Public Radio was founded, WNYC has lived in the iconic municipal building in the City Hall District of Lower Manhattan.

Now we're moving on up to the western edge of trendy Soho. State of the art studios

triple the square footage, three full floors of open plan offices, a brand new space.

Which got us thinking about some other spaces. So we thought we would rerun some prior considerations

of media spaces and also report on some new ones,

including how architects use high-tech technology to pitch their designs and how sound is used to create and modify spaces.

First, though, Japan's bid for the extreme media experience offered via so-called media immersion pods.

I say so-called because the Japanese just called them Internet cafes or manga cafes after the illustrated books.

But they are so much more.

Internet cafes are to these immersion pods, what a Hershey bar is, to a bathtub full of molten Godiva.

Virginia Heffernan wrote about the ultimate media indulgence in the New York Times.

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