Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened ________As was discussed before, it was not ______ the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre- electronic ______ , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the________of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution________ up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading________ through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures________ the 20th-century world of the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in________ It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized,________ , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century,________by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process,________its impact on the media was not immediately________As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as________, with display becoming sharper and storage________increasing. They were thought of, like people,________generations, with the distance between generations much________.
It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the________within which we now live. The communications revolution has________both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been________views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed________"harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.