content, before evolving new forms. The television 
medium is encircled by hybrid information media, 
and becomes content for cable, satellite, and 
telephone. Consumers have become producers of 
their own audience experiences, through low tech 
devices such as remote control, VCRs, and 
camcorders. High tech interactive media, including 
CD-ROMs, further decentralize media, and place 
more power in the hands of users. Driven by its 
users, not the U.S. Defense Department which 
financed its origins, the Internet as medium 
approximates a global extension of consciousness, 
a kind of living brain, with sex still a hot topic in 
global village gossip. On the intellectual front,