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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. 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.