No one remembers why. Retail operations arise to sell manually processed media. They are called bookstores. Amtrak moves their terminal to the south lawn of the White House, now an airport. The health care bill is still locked in a Congressional committee.
Digital images are now holograms, projecting computer images of reality on demand.
Lonely people go steady with inflatable holograms. Newspapers once printed a code in the TV listings to automate the taping of certain shows at certain times. Now, TV flash codes to tell you which newspaper articles and books to read and copy. Multimedia is still projected to be a big market . . . I saw an ad in a DC comic book for a walkie talkie.