Sensing the change
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Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, believes that although the Web still largely simulates magazines, change is afoot. Animated information, courtesy of Java and ActiveX, is supplanting static information, and the 2D page metaphor is being replaced by 3D immersive environments. By the early 2000s, the Web will have shifted from a tool for accessing information to one for accessing other people, with information surrounding conversational space. New devices for accessing the Web change multimedia design. For example, Web TV makes Web surfing a social experience. Should a new device become popular, developers will design Web experiences explicitly for those devices. Inexpensive sensors that make it simple for networks and PCs to monitor the analog world are likely to greatly change interactive multimedia.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1997
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Andy Van Dam sketches future worlds
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An interview with Andy Van Dam is presented. Van Dam is a pioneer in the computer graphics and multimedia industry, having co-developed the Hypertext Editing System in 1967 and co-founding SIGGRAPH. In the future, Van Dam plans to focus on 'interactive illustrations', which are explorable microworlds that can be interacted with and manipulated. To accomplish this, Van Dam is working with 3D user interfaces, using computer sketching rather than pull down menus or dialog boxes to indicate choices. Van Dam anticipates that in the following years, deskside virtual reality will be in much greater use. He foresees users becoming more involved and moving beyond simple navigation to be capable of changing their landscape run experiments and asking questions.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1998
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Changing content
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The new electronic media are changing the rules of publishing. While traditional publishers scoff at people who publish their own works, the new media play host to personal Web sites, individual storytelling and alternative news sources. Because of the proliferation of these sites, traditional publishers feel threatened and are hitting back with critical articles that patronize or demean these electronic publications. The advantage of allowing everyone to have a voice in the new electronic media is that traditional publishers will be forced to improve their products. Those who resist will find themselves unprepared for the next century while those who ride with the changes will become more effective and valuable.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1999
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