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Making a Difference Globally |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL FEATURE--THE INTERNET |
| Author: Christine Crafton |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 1,663 Words, 10,865 Characters |
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Broadcast technology has been around for decades. The difference today is being able to respond to and interact with what is sent to us. The nearly ubiquitous reach of two-way communications affects the individual on both micro and macro levels.
Today, all forms of communications, whether voice, data, or video, can be transmitted as numerals (zeros and ones) over two-way digital networks, allowing users to respond with relative ease. But is this fundamentally different from opening a letter or answering the phone? The digitized world has affected us individually, economically, and politically. Understanding the fundamental nature of this change requires some knowledge of the technology, the market, and consumer response.
Interactive applications have been made possible by a combi...
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...ications and services are not just faster, more fun, mind-expanding, more social, riskier, and so forth. They open up a new world of interactive community to which we have become addicted. We get drawn in by the medium itself. As Marshall McLuhan observed over a quarter century ago, the medium has indeed become the message--inseparable and riskier but with the potential of greater reward. vbcrlf
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