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“In 1970, the height of the Nixon era, media activists saw TV as a sophisticated vehicle for social control whose broad purposes were to deliver the people to advertisers, and make public opinion easy to orchestrate.
Reading Teilhard, McLuhan, Bateson, McCulloch, Wiener and others, they developed the premise that if one could understand how our culture used information, one could devise a mix of strategies, using 1/2″ video equipment, to leverage the rigid world information order of the time.
They thought reversing the process of television, giving people access to the tools of production and distribution, giving them control of their own images and, by implication, their own lives – giving them permission to originate information on the issues most meaningful to themselves – might help accelerate social and cultural change. Connectivity, the Videosphere as defined by Gene Youngblood based on an earlier idea by Teilhard, was an important part of the vision – an early stab at articulating the connected world, and a way to get there.”
