Television and online: a marriage made in heaven

David Brennan

The author argues that internet and TV, so far from being opposed, are in fact helping each other grow.

Television and online: a marriage made in heaven

David Brennan

In ancient Egypt, the people sang songs of worship to the Nile as though it were a god. Every so often, the river would swell and burst its banks, but when the waters receded, the soil was invigorated and bursting with life. Grain grew in abundance and life was better than before.

It strikes me that the internet resembles this aspect of the Nile, only there has been a problem of interpretation. It isn't a god, although some people treat it with an almost religious zeal bordering on fundamentalism, but...

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