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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,