The multimedia tools industry has changed very little over the last few years. The tools for these people haven't changed all that much. Most still use C or authoring tools like Director. Changes are occurring mostly in digital video playback with the new PowerPC and Pentium processors. The computer industry has changed a bit faster but not very dramatically.
Home computers are now powerful enough to run multimedia CD-ROMs.
Laptops are gaining multimedia capability. A laptop demonstration of access to World Wide Web pages is all you need to convince some people to wade through the technical minefield to obtain Internet access. All these changes are evolutionary and predictable. What has changed dramatically is the content business, which remains unpredictable. Those developers creating CD-ROM games are making money, while those who created game cartridges for Nintendo and Sega are retooling for the next wave of game machines.