全球化生产、跨境航运与全域互联 —— 这套运转体系，要求人们将世界视作一个完整、独立且可被全面认知的整体。人类自古便有对整个地球的构想，但在过去五十年间，这种认知逐渐演变为：世界是畅通无阻、可自由穿行的整体。

这一转变并非偶然，而是与人类观测地球愈发精密的工具和技术深度绑定：太空影像、卫星传感系统、全球定位卫星群，彻底改变了人类认知地球、利用地球的方式。

本场讲座将结合数个依托数据打造的沉浸式媒体项目，剖析二者之间的关联，探讨卫星技术如何实现全球联通、跨域流动，并让人类将地球视作统一整体。同时，本次分享也将沿着这一认知思路，延伸至一个出人意料的终极方向：当地球被视为单一整体时，它便可化作一台巨型设备 —— 一座行星级射电望远镜，能够探索数百万光年之外的宇宙深空。

人类最初从太空观测、解析地球的诉求，最终促成了我们望向浩瀚宇宙的可能。从这个角度而言，对完整地球的认知，是探索宇宙奥秘的前提。

Global manufacturing, global shipping, and global connectivity — these systems require an imagination of the world as a single, self-contained, knowable object. Humans have long held conceptions of the full earth, but over the last fifty years that imagination has shifted toward a world that is frictionless and traversable. This shift is not accidental. It is entangled with the increasingly complex tools and techniques we use to measure the planet: space images, satellite sensors, and GPS constellations have reshaped how the earth can be known, and with it, how it can be used.

This talk explores that entanglement through several data-driven, immersive media projects. These pieces examine how satellites make possible our ability to connect the world, move across it, and picture it as a unified whole. It then follows that imagination to an unexpected endpoint. When the earth is conceived as a single entity, it becomes possible to treat it as a single instrument: a planet-sized radio telescope capable of reaching millions of light years into space. Our initial desire to analyze the earth from space creates the possibility for now looking outward. Knowledge of a unified globe, in this sense, is a precondition for knowledge of the cosmos.