Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jacksons, who proved you can never be too rich, too thin, too bleached, too naked, too . . . too Jackson to keep the gossips mum. Just sign a multimedia deal that could bring you a billion (Michael) or a record contract worth $32 million (Janet). Or pose nude in Playboy (La Toya). Or chastise your bro as "reconstructed, been abducted" in a rap song (Jermaine to Michael). Or put crotch shots and a car trashing in your music video (Michael). The worst of it is that on the side, a couple of them (Michael, Janet) make good music...
...Jacksons, who proved you can never be too rich, too thin, too bleached, too naked, too . . . too Jackson to keep the gossips mum. Just sign a multimedia deal that could bring you a billion (Michael) or a record contract worth $32 million (Janet). Or pose nude in Playboy (La Toya). Or chastise your bro as "reconstructed, been abducted" in a rap song (Jermaine to Michael). Or put crotch shots and a car trashing in your music video (Michael). The worst of it is that on the side, a couple of them (Michael, Janet) make good music...
TECHNOLOGY What is multimedia? And who would want...
Some critics are not so sure. While conceding that interactive multimedia may prove useful in helping students visualize abstract concepts in physics or math, many fear that the tools of multimedia will turn the traditional educational experience into something more akin to television. Author Steven Levy, writing in Macworld magazine, insists that the ability to express oneself in words and to understand the words of others is essential to the process of thinking. "But multimedia laughs at that objection," he writes, "because multimedia, like television, is designed to entertain, at the cost of thinking...
...interactive multimedia will succeed, at least at some level, ! because for certain purposes it makes good sense. In the business world, it is already being embraced as a tool to train workers in such complex skills as aircraft maintenance and computer repair. But multimedia still lacks what computer companies call the "killer application," a program like the electronic spreadsheet or the word processor that is so compelling that consumers will buy a new device just to run it. As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, every new medium takes its content from its predecessor: early films were simply recorded stage plays...