An early invited presentation of LIVE Environments. The focus was on the origins of LIVE Astro, and on how it can be used to connect "data, language, and pictures," in line with the mission layed out by Goodman et al. in "The Paper of the Future" in 2015. Delivered in the context of a AAS-hosted discussion of strategy for astronomical data archives' strategy, worldwide.
Several different three dimensional models of the Universe can reproduce the two dimensional motions we see in our night sky accurately. It was not until...