A short history of visual representation: - Cave painting -> Leonardo Da Vinci - Cameras lucida -> photography - Moving pictures -> television - Computers -> smart ”phones” But then ”phones” go back to tv. At least that’s how Derek Thompson presents it, boiling our complex current moment (2025) down into the single assertion [Everything is Television](https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television), like short form episodic video seems to be the strange attractor pulling all media toward it. That’s a helpful way to think about now.