To provide an example of a slightly more interesting way to approach posting, I'm going to share a work that I think addresses (tangentially, at least...) part of this chapter by Youngblood.
Youngblood mentions at the beginning of the chapter that the language of cinema was expanding to include new technologies, and that likewise the language of science was expanding to include spiritual realities. A contemporary artist who I think exemplifies some current development in this thinking is a woman named Aspen Mays who approaches aspects of current science from the perspective of an enthusiastic, awe-filled amateur. A recent piece of hers called "Larry", which was a tribute to "Lawnchair Larry", an amateur who in the early 80's attached several weather balloons to his lawnchair in order to float about 3 miles into the sky, is a good example to start with.
You can see a short video documentation of the piece here: Larry Video
She sent a tiny little mock-up of Larry's chair into space with a video camera to document its ascent and fall. You might be reminded of the father and son who did something very similar with a tiny hd camera this last year.
While this may not relate directly to the kind of technology Youngblood is discussing, which primarily relates to his metaphor of the informational "Noosphere" forming a kind of common consciousness that relates to certain Eastern metaphysical systems, I think it does highlight one of the current approaches toward science and technology in contemporary culture: one that doesn't necessarily need to understand the technology fully to be filled with the kind of awe that could be described as "cosmic consciousness".
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