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When Media Was for You and Me — with Fred Turner

Your Undivided Attention

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Agency Isn't Really Happening in That Same Way

Designers of the forties and fifties were building spaces with many hundreds of images inside them through which people would walk in their bodies. In moscow, n 19 59, we have a massive national propaganda exhibition there, giant buckminster fuller dome, 200 feet across. Seven screen images above flickering with different pictures of america. These environments were designed to show people the possibilities in America - not not to immerse them. And i think what's new about our time is that when we have phones in our pockets, screens on our desks, screens onOur walls, screens on the back of our aeroplane chairs,. screens on the backs of our car chairs, make up

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