Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly, puzzlingly, Japan finds itself well behind in the race to catch the next big technological wave: the intersection of computers, telephones and cable television as well as the electronic services by which information travels across these networks. Americans call it multimedia; the Japanese call it ``maruchimedia.'' By whatever name, it encompasses everything from CD-ROM games to two-way television to the Internet, and quite a bit more. While foreign companies, most of them in the U.S., are zipping ahead along this frontier, Japan is way behind, clueless in cyberspace. What's going...
...which they will live. Dalton's emphasis on collaborative learning -- those little groups around a computer -- ``is perfect preparation,'' says Moretti, for a world in which most problems, whether scientific or corporate, are addressed by teams. Students often produce their papers collectively. Increasingly, projects are composed in the same multimedia format used for instruction. In addition, students are being primed for the world of the Internet by taking part in the school's own E-mail and bulletin-board system. They log onto the Dalton Network from home or at school to ``chat'' with friends, confer with teachers or join...
...potential victim of all this convergence seems to be the industry supporting the CD-ROM, which is now the fastest-growing form of multimedia. A single 5-in.-diameter CD-ROM can hold everything from video games to a 21- volume encyclopedia. But within a decade, the millions of bits of information now stored on these discs will probably be piped into homes from video servers. That threat of eventual obsolescence, however, does little to alter projections of almost $10 billion a year in combined CD-ROM hardware and software sales in the interim...
...highway to decide what it is they should be selling. Companies that focus on providing Hollywood-packaged films, for example, could find consumers turning to an array of low-budget movies (some of them interactive) produced by small studios or even amateur filmmakers using increasingly available commercial cameras and multimedia kits. But companies that look to profit as distributors run the risk of becoming little more than common carriers, with the danger that their ability to charge for use of their cables and phone lines might somehow be circumscribed...
...will be to keep up with the competition while maintaining universal delivery. That famous promise -- ``Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers . . . '' -- engraved on New York City's main post office has a more reassuring ring to a citizen whose new 100-megahertz multimedia PowerPC just crashed for the third time. By Suneel Ratan/Washington