There were still occasions when words printed on pieces of paper were the most convenient medium of communication, but even here technology had made its mark.
Ice makes a convenient and efficient medium for the job.
And there are also pianists for whom the instrument is simply a convenient medium for musical ideas.
When a better, cheaper, faster, or more convenient medium appears, the music follows-with or without the content owners.
One by one, colonies began to issue their own paper money to serve as a convenient medium of exchange.
What they also need to take into account is availability of a particular item in a convenient medium.
One of the first convenient mediums for retaining information, papyrus, was used to develop systems for learning and developing new ideas.
By 1982, most pornographic films were being shot on the cheaper and more convenient medium of videotape.
Watercolour is a very convenient medium to use in the field.
For gathering reference material and for working out ideas in sketch form it is hard to imagine a more convenient and practical medium.