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Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is a designer and technologist based in New York City. Her expanded follow entails archival tasks, techno-essential writing, performative lectures, design commissions, and shut collaborations. Her latest writing surveys feminist economies, historic precursors of the metaverse, and the materiality of the internet. Mindy’s ongoing Cyberfeminism Index, which gathers three a long time of online activism and internet art, was commissioned by Rhizome, presented at the brand new Museum, and awarded the Graham Foundation Grant. She has lectured internationally at cultural establishments (Barbican Centre, New Museum), educational establishments (Columbia University, Central Saint Martins), and mainstream platforms (Pornhub, SSENSE, Google), and been a resident at MacDowell, Sitterwerk Foundation, Pioneer Works, and Internet Archive. Her design commissions and session embody projects for the Serpentine Gallery, Canadian Centre for porn film Architecture, and MIT Media Lab. Her work has been featured in Frieze, Dazed, Gagosian Quarterly, Brooklyn Rail, i-D, and extra. Mindy holds an M.Des. Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is presently Assistant Professor at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and Critic at Yale School of Art.

Now, take a moment to observe among the demo. I ask you, is that not an impressive thing? Does it not look pretty nice, even by today’s requirements? By all measures, it was a technical marvel and a superb consumer experience. Nevertheless it failed - bitterly. Bell Telephone’s plans for the PicturePhone were bold, if not outright delusional. The cost of a PicturePhone plan was $160/month. Today, flagship mobile phones sell at around $one thousand a piece, however might you think about paying that worth every month for service? That’s what $160 would have felt like in 1970. Bell set up PicturePhone booths in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. 20/minute to make use of them. When was the final time you dropped $one hundred fifty in a vending machine? That’s the sort of expense we’re speaking about. As batshit as the economics of the PicturePhone were, Bell’s goal was to build a $1 Billion company - 100,000 PicturePhones in the first 5 years; 1,000,000 by 1980; 12,000,000 by 2000. Despite making an incredible piece of equipment and truly dazzling the technorati of the time by making it work well over previous, twisted copper wire, that was by no means going to happen.

Today, it’s straightforward to ask why Bell wouldn’t have simply subsidized the product in the early days to build the market. The reply is regulation. At the time, Bell owned many of the infrastructure - the community over which the PicturePhone was transmitting. Taking a loss on the machine to lock in prospects would have triggered an enormous antitrust case, and well, again then companies really cared about that form of factor and so did the government. So, the PicturePhone was pressured to be exorbitantly costly. Though an financial misfit, the PicturePhone was an excellent machine and an excellent better catalyst. Researchers at Bell Labs knew that a digital future was at hand, and that new infrastructure would be required to help it. Several years before the PicturePhone was released, Bell produced a movie representing their view of the future, referred to as Seeing the Digital Future, which anticipated so much of today’s digital and internet-driven culture.

Creating the PicturePhone allowed them to experiment with a few of the interactions they anticipated would turn out to be commonplace, while also demonstrating the need for upgraded infrastructure. That Bell engineers have been in a position to deliver a device that transmitted stable sound and image over existing telelphone strains was extraordinary. That they have been in a position to create such a compact, desk-prepared system that was compatible with the telephones already sitting on them was also. That the PicturePhone had a digital camera that used actual glass optics and was refocusable and repositionable remotely makes me covet it, even now. Beyond these features, the PicturePhone launched in 1970 anticipated much of today’s internet expertise. Fluid and frequent digital connections between individuals, absolutely, but in addition the multimedia nature of how we change information as we speak. Bell added video to what had been a wholly auditory connection experience to this point, however in addition they constructed add-ons to connect PicturePhone to mainframe computer systems, share slides over the display, and even a mirror module that will enable the unit’s camera to broadcast documents you had on your desk.

Undeniably cool, although admittedly niche for the time. Bell hoped that gaining a country’s worth of subscribers would drive a nationwide improve in digital infrastructure. As it could end up, even the web, as we realize it in the present day, wouldn’t do that. We'd must distribute credit for making the common American perceive the necessity for fiber optic cable amongst a various constituency - from Google to Pornhub. Pricing and infrastructure can be blamed for what would become a $500 million loss for Bell Telephone. Even that number doesn’t really describe how much of a misfire the PicturePhone was compared with the fact that in the first 6 months, solely 12 clients subscribed to the service, and by the point it was formally canceled, it had precisely zero of those customers left. But even in 1970, there were more than 12 people wealthy sufficient to be early adopters. So why didn’t they?