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X  Upon this age, that never speaks its mind, This furtive age, this age endowed with power To wake the moon with footsteps, fit an oar Into the rowlocks of the wind, and find What swims before his prow, what swirls behind — Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour, Falls from the sky [...]

1. Instead of substituting old media with new media, people simply increase the number of media they use. 2. For many people this means that media become wallpaper – on in the background, and usually receiving only part of a person’s attention. 3. To cope with the large number of media used, many people are [...]

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