The Videosphere

After reading Gene Youngblood's perspective on the importance and emergence of computing technology in the 1970s, I continued on with the theme and decided to read "The Videosphere" chapter. Youngblood puts an interesting perspective on videosphere, a term he uses that is also in reference to a television set in the shape of a space helmet, and goes on to describe it as man's extension of the central nervous system. The seemingly limitless possibilities of our senses are made into reality via technological advancement of video programming.  Youngblood, from what I have noticed, loves using analogies and compares this relatively new information to existing concepts at the time. In addition to comparing the videosphere as the human nervous system, he quotes Nam June Paik's views on retrieval and recording systems. Much like Chinese characters, reading is faster than writing. Comparatively, English is easier to write but slower to read.