Television’s Super-Highway

Science & Technology, first prize singles

1995

Television's super-highway: this wall of 500 screens, showing 500 different images, symbolizes the information revolution which - as the millennium approaches - affects everyone's daily life. The electronic screen has an uncanny power to mesmerize. Today, young Americans spend as much time in front of a television as in a classroom, with the average adult watching over 30 hours every week. The technology is in place to transmit at least 500 channels by cable.

Commissioned by: Matrix for National Geographic

Photo Credit: Louie Psihoyos

Psihoyos was born in Dubuque, Lowa in 1957, the son of a Greek immigrant who fled communist occupation of the Peloponnesos region near Sparta after World War II.

In 1980, just 23 years old and having won an unprecedented first place in every category of the prestigious College Photographer of the Year award. Louie Psihoyos became the first new National Geographic photographer hired on staff in more than a decade. Psihoyos worked for the yellow-bordered magazine for the next 17 years establishing himself as one of the medium’s most prolific and profound visionaries and social observers. He has circled the globe dozens of times for National Geographic on photographic missions as diverse as Sleep and Dreams to the Sense of Smell. He is world-renowned for his imagination, wit and iconic imagery.