11.   And it will not be easy because the Web depends on a bigger combination of technical systems than just about any consumer communications medium before it.

12.   As a communications medium, the Internet does seem unique in the way that it magnifies the issues of privacy and anonymity.

13.   As a communications medium where personal presence is primarily text and sex differences are not immediately visible, the Internet is tailor-made to help women finally find their voices.

14.   At best, some critics argue, it is premature to sign long-term pacts governing an evolving communications medium.

15.   E-mail is unique as a communications medium because it is faceless and voiceless but at the same time very personal.

16.   From heiroglyphs to cable TV, every communications medium has had its dirty subset.

17.   Here is a communications medium with immense possibilities for professional media, largely ignored except by the Chief Copyboy.

18.   It is almost a truism that no new communications medium turns out the way its inventors imagined.

19.   It is not, Gees said, that he imagines that the problems of the world will be solved with this unusual communication medium.

20.   No one is more excited than I am about the Net, the most revolutionary communications medium of the century.