Talk:List of basic entertainment topics

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While people have amused themselves since the beginning of time, the entertainment industry first became a dominant force in society in the 20th century with the development of new electronic technologies of recording and broadcasting. Western peoples, weary of serious purposes and mass slaughter, turned to popular culture following the two world wars. The economic basis of this new culture was advertising - the juxtaposition of free or cheap entertainment programming and unwanted commercial messages. In their heyday, television networks were powerful selling machines which, besides entertaining people, controlled both commercial and political markets by providing direct access to the mass of customers or voters. This "empire" is now threatened by the proliferation and segmentation of media and especially by the increasing importance of communication by computer which allows the consumer to seek out the informational message instead of having it broadcast to him or her. A new scheme of world history sees Americans in transition between a fourth, entertainment-based "civilization" and a future fifth civilization based on computer communication (the old print culture, which is the third civilization, having recently receded.) See discussion of Five Epochs of Civilization.

The Transhumanist (AWB) 22:18, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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