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NOISE>FOUR, published in November 2001. Telepress' inception December 1994, six weeks before the collapse of a young mind.  
In 2001, the design agency ATTIK and Harper Collins released NOISE>FOUR, the fourth book in the Noise project series. It featured a ten page basic synopsis of Telepress under the module name "Agenda" from page 306 onwards. Those ten pages were the culmination of seven years of personal study by Victor J Kennedy.  

My vision of Telepress occurred during my final year at university during an excessive study period for my dissertation, which was due to be handed in February 1995, the same week I experienced hypomania and suffered a nervous breakdown.
The historian Kenneth Gold has pointed out that the early educational reformers in the states were tremendously concerned that children did not get too much schooling. In 1871, for example, the US commissioner of education published a report by Edward Jarvis on the "Relation of Education to Insanity." Jarvis had studied 1,741 cases of insanity and concluded that "over-study" was responsible for 205 of them. "Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder," Jarvis wrote. Similarly, the pioneer of public education in Massachusetts, Horace Mann, believed that working students too hard would create a "most pernicious influence upon character and habits...Not infrequently is health itself destroyed by over-stimulating the mind." Read on to see the results of the over-stimulation of a 22 year old mind.

Telepress Introduction

If you can imagine your television set becoming the single most important appliance in your home because you and your family organize your whole lives through it, then you can also imagine how Telepress fits into that scenario.
We understand how the world wide web brings information to our computer screens and that we can interact with it using a keyboard and a mouse.

We can even send information in the opposite direction, like when we use email. We are also becoming comfortable with using a remote control to browse and send information in the same way through our television set. This is where Telepress comes in. *Remember, all remote controls have four coloured buttons, red, green, yellow and blue. All screens have four corners and four sides.

Telepress is a categorization system, like a highway code, which aids and enhances navigation for anyone looking for information through any screen, perhaps a television, maybe even a mobile device.

Using the four colours and the four corners, Telepress aims to help people intuitively find their way through to information and satisfy their immediate need with a more desired effect.

It works using the same common understanding of how physical objects, people or places can be organised and easily found by others. Try to imagine the local community resources grouped and colour coded around the four corners of the village square, from the doctors to the hairdressers, the greengrocers to the solicitors. Everything exists on vicinity and physical memory maps, rather than alphanumerical lists or 'most relevant search result' estimated translation by a third party like google.

The whole system revolves around “Need Oriented Filtration” with the ten basic human needs grouped and colour coded as filters or subdividers, like an index at the back of your local Yellow Pages.

 

 
   
 
  What is Telepress?
Categorisation
The FTSE
Circles are so useful
Red, Green, Yellow & Blue
Universal Navigation
Personal Publishing

Abraham Maslow
Ten basic human needs
01 Mind and Body
02 Nourishment
03 Environment
04 Protection
05 Communication
06 Direction
07 Contact
08 Transactions
09 Identity
10 Promotion
Why do we need signs?
Neurolinguistic programming
Staying in the womb

Inspiration
Stargate
The village square
The four corners of the world
Teletext
Traffic Lights
TV remote control
Video-on-demand
Apple Computers
Sony Playstation

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  © 1994 - 2009 Victor J Kennedy. All rights reserved.
'Telepress' is born of the the word Telepresence, which means; To be somewhere else: To be 'Virtually' Distant: to have telesthesia.
Tele: [Greek têle-, from têle, far off.] Press: Being everywhere, ubiquitousness, omnipresence. [Personal publishing]