[He seems to perk up at the word television, visibly brightening and all at once looking slightly friendlier.]

I'd never seen a television at all, before coming here. [He's apparently enthralled by the very concept of it.] Well, here. The Horizon. I'm familiar with photography, but the instantaneous transmission of recorded video...astonishing.

[Which probably makes the rest of this place in context, given the decor and the general state of technological advancement in all of the unfinished projects, except for the one in the lab. In fact, he's so focused on the mention of a television that Viktor doesn't seem to understand what Kyle is getting at until he looks towards the door, then he makes a little ah noise.]

A...conduit. For arcane energies.