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The most interesting piece of information that I gained from reading these two chapters is that new "technologies repairs the inadequacy of the medium or media that is now supersedes."This means that everything has a predecessor and "the only thing that seems impossible is to have no relationship at all." I probably already knew this; however, while reading this chapter, this idea really hit home. Also, the economic dimension of remediation was very interesting. Essentially, people could live the rest of their lives with the computers they currently own, but because industries convince consumers that their product "improves on the experience of older ones" people trade in the old for the new. Because people want transparent immediacy and hypermediacy everything we consider normal today will be outdated in the future.