Yet all our guidance on lottery funding, millennium bids and European projects emphasises again and again the inclusion of multi-media interactives. Our visitors are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their tastes. People expect the quality of graphics, animation and sound tracks that they see each day in the broadcast media. At Croydon, The Science Museum, Dover Castle and hopefully soon in Norwich you will see examples of multi-media being used to enhance access to collections rather than overwhelm them. Above all effective multi-media technologies are the servant rather than the master of a good story line and access to high quality data.
Effective technology becomes invisible rather than a barrier to communicating a message.
In the future ubiquitous or invisible technology will not betray itself by a keyboard or a mouse, but will be used as instinctively as a pencil. Page last updated 8 July 1999.