填空题 Comparisons were drawn between the development television in the 20th century and the diffusion printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened ---|||________|||---As was discussed before, it was not ---|||________|||--- the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre- electronic ---|||________|||--- , following in the wake the pamphlet and the book and in the ---|||________|||--- the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution ---|||________|||--- up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading ---|||________|||--- through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures ---|||________|||--- the 20th-century world the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that in ---|||________|||--- It is important to do so. 　　It is generally recognized, ---|||________|||--- , that the introduction the computer in the early 20th century, ---|||________|||---by the invention the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the , ---|||________|||---its impact the media was not immediately ---|||________|||---As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as ---|||________|||---, with display becoming sharper and storage ---|||________|||---increasing. They were thought , like people, ---|||________|||---generations, with the distance between generations much ---|||________|||---. 　　It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the ---|||________|||---within which we now live. The communications revolution has ---|||________|||---both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been ---|||________|||---views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed ---|||________|||---"harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.