I appreciate the encouragement. I'd need a general hypothesis to make it interesting and give it a narrative structure.
It's just a giant relay race where people are grabbing batons left and right and then taking it a few steps.
It's always "well I've got this thing and here is how it has to be used" and we're still in that world of limitation as I drag my thumb across a handheld piece of glass to send this.
What we do is a function of what we make. For a deep dive I'll direct you to 1920s mechanical television on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_television
The machine and interface are artefacts of each other; reality's constraints on our ideas. It'll have to be motivated by something more specific than that though. Otherwise it'll just be a 2,000 page encyclopedia
