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Passage 3
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 between. As was discussed before,it was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic 36 ， following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 37 of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution 38 up, beginning with transport, the railway and leading on through the telegraph，the telephone, radio, and motion picturesinto the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in 39 . It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, however, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20 th century, 40 by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, although its impact on the media was not immediately 41 As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful,and they became “personal，too,as well as 42 , with display becoming sharper and storage capacity increasing. They were thought of,like people，in terms of generations, with the distance between generations much 43 .
It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the 44 within which we now live. The communications revolution has influenced both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 45 view about its economic,political,social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed against “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.
