单选题 Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened 16 As was discussed before, it was not 17 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic 18 , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 19 of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution 20 up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading 21 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 22 the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in 23 . It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, 24 , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, 25 by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 26 its impact on the media was not immediately 27 . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as 28 , with display becoming sharper and storage 29 increasing. They were thought of, like people, 30 generations, with the distance between generations much smaller.
It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the context within which we now live.