We are all, in this age of digital media, New Yorkers.

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Of course the devil is in the detail: If Amazon allow the resale of any digital file, then we are all royally screwed.

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And new innovations such as printed circuit technology and the white space radio spectrum (transmitting data over unused TV channel airwaves as we switch from analogue to digital TV) are all helping to create a world where everything can talk to everything else, and everything to us.

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Even in the digital world, for all the talk about long tails, we are in a hit-driven world, and broadcast is a big part of that.

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However, if we want to shield them from the ugly idiosyncrasies of adult reality, we need to take measures to isolate them from the digital networked atmosphere where all boundaries are potentially permeable.

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So, why are we sitting around on February 17, 2009, with only a select few stations broadcasting in all digital?

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