ABSTRACT
Placed under the headline of ‘computer-democracy’, this quotation points to the direction of the latest development in information technology. An extra dimension can now be added to a conventional system using modern multimedia and virtual reality technologies. As a result multimedia has become a ‘buzzword’ of the 1990s. Laurini and Thompson (1992) defined multimedia as ‘a variety of analogue and digital forms of data that come together via common channels of communication’, while Furht (1994) describes multimedia in the bigger picture as a ‘merging of three industries: computing, communication and broadcasting’.
