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All situations are composed of an area of
attention (figure ) and a very much larger
(subliminal) area of inattention (ground ). . . .
Figures rise out of, and recede back into, ground
. . . for example, at a lecture the attention will
shift from the speaker’s words to his gestures, to
the hum of the lighting or street sounds, or to the
feel of the chair or a memory or association or
smell, each new figure alternatively displaces the
others into ground . . . . The ground of any
technology is both the situation that gives rise to
it as well as the whole environment (medium) of
services and disservices that the technology
brings with it. These are side-effects and impose