[stefanix]

All the tech and theory was already out there. There was no shortage of visionaries. Take for example Engelbart's Mother of all Presentations (1968). Paik, like many artist showed that art and poetry is in that domain. In the early days there was alot of talk about abstract capabilities and not much concrete play.

[zwischenzug]

Fair point, but it was more Paik's prescience about what this would do to society that I was interested in.

One interesting thing about Paik is that he assumed we would all be more creative with these new media, but unfortunately we seem to have moved back to a 'centralised creativity' world just as before. I guess, as an artist, he assumed more people had his impulses?

[wsy]

> I guess, as an artist, he assumed more people had his impulses?

I think this is part of the sixties zeitgeist: if people would be freed from capitalistic consumerism, there would be some kind of awakening, leading to a better society.

One of Paik's famous quotes is: "Television has attacked us for a lifetime, now we fight back". The attitude to hope for everybody's creativity is also well aligned with Beuys posit: "Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler" (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beuys-joseph-beuys-ever...).