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The great digital switch: in the coming technological revolution, will there be space for the common good?(CULTURE)

Publication: Sojourners Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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When color television became popular in the 1960s, you could still use your old black-and-white set. When CDs took over the recorded music market in the 1980s, your vinyl would still play on your turntable. And while you can get only DVDs at Blockbuster or Netflix, your collection of old VHS...

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...tapes will still play just fine. But in February 2009, we face the first forced technological revolution that will actually render a whole category of devices--the analog TV set--utterly useless. That's when all broadcast television will go digital, and any pre-digital television will stop working.

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