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these forms, and so they’re still there to practise
on. And when you apply his techniques to these
things you get contemporary answers.
There’s a third factor, and that is since 1980 you
wouldn’t believe the number of new media that
have appeared. Beginning with the PC, the desktop
computer which we all take for granted, and isn’t it
as old as the telephone, hasn’t it been around
about as long? And the answer is no, it hasn’t. It’s
only been around about half a generation. Which
seems incredible because we’re so accustomed to
these things. But here we are surrounded by a
whole pile of new media: PCs, and faxes, and video