Mass Media and Historical Change. Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present

Epilogue: The Internet Age | 173

Since the mid-nineteenth century, new mass media have established and
surprised the public about every thirty years. So it is not unusual that we do
not know what kind of mass media will come next and consign computers,
the Internet and Facebook to history. So we and coming historians will explain
to our grandchildren how we survived in a world with such a simple and slow
media as the Internet.