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Digital Essays 2014: Everything (and nothing) has changed

The audience has changed forever – and so must we, contends Yousef Tuqan Tuqan.

Everything has changed.

To know just how much things have changed, let’s go back in time. Not too far back, just to my 18th birthday in Amman, Jordan in 1993. I lived on a planet where I had access to two TV channels, one English radio station, and one English-language newspaper.

Now imagine trying to explain to 18-year-old me the planet we live on today. A planet where every person is walking around (and usually ignoring each other) with a piece of glass and metal in the palm of their hand that weighs less than 200 grams.

Through this piece of glass, you can access every film ever made, every


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