We've heard a good deal of talk about ecologies. We're going from a situation where information is strictly controlled, with concerns about copyright and intellectual property rights, to an area where I would suggest information is largely out of control. Howard Gardner, a very famous professor here at Harvard, suggests in fact that human beings have many intelligences. There are many ways of being smart and knowledgeable. The new media allows us to use music, multiple links, sound, graphics, and call on many more forms of our human intelligences, and therefore it is far more satisfying to use than the more limited old legacy media.
Information is much more static in the legacy media.
Or it can be very dynamic on a screen. There will be interesting changes in what a document is. A product has been demonstrated called FutureTense, which uses Java. Scott McNealy would be very happy. It allows you to have areas on the screen that change dynamically every time you call it up, which calls into question the definition of a document.