Passage Index for School's Out Passage Index for School's Out Lewis J. Perelman. Avon Books, 1992. Rather, hyperlearning represents the fusion of these technological threads. HL is weaving them into the fabric of a new industrial base for a new kind of world economy.
Hypermedia is to multimedia roughly what an index is to a book.
The vital role of hypermedia in hyperlearning is to provide the technical bridge between information and understanding. Those with the greatest ability to pay will still get greater access to the most valuable knowledge. But the cost of access will be so greatly reduced that vastly more knowledge will be available to everyone. Leading researchers in the field of neurobiology expect a revolution in pharmacology by the turn of the century that will produce drugs that do for the brain what steroids do for muscles. The mission of hyperlearning is not only vision but action.