This chapter is motivated by the experience of the traditional television user. As everyone can assert, and as Raymond Williams marvelously described it, the experience of television (at least in one of its dominant forms) is one of an intermediate state between day and night, sea and land, closeness and distance, consciousness and dream, reality and magic, attention and distraction (Williams 2008, 77-121). The television experience is one in which the world changes completely just by pushing a button. This is why the following begins with a completely surreal question: how can one imagine the transformation of a person into an animal, such as the metamorphosis of a university professor into a mouse? This could happen only by magic, as it does in fairy tales, or by technology, such as in films – and here I am thinking of not only animated movies (Panovsky 1947) and early cinema (specifically, the cinema of Georges Melies. See Solomon 2010 and Engell 2013a, 255-268) but also regular feature films, such as Alain Resnais’s wonderful My American Uncle (1980), and computer-generated images. Of course, this happens in everyday experiences using a television remote control. This chapter centers on the hypothesis that the computer's main function, the mouse click – or, more recently, the touching of a virtual key on a screen – is deeply rooted in and has been prepared by remotely controlled television.