Today we have reached the zenith of the industrial society. The communication networks represent the nerve cords and supplement or replace in part the previous central role of traffic routes. Via these networks people can communicate with one another in all parts of the country with the help of a variety of media such as text, data, speech, audio and video services. While radio and television up to now only allow passive reception of sound, or sound and video, the telephone and the fax machine already allow the interactive, albeit isolated transfer of speech and text. One talks in this respect about multimedia services.
Multimedia augments the new communication technology.
Bavaria must stay ahead The economic strength of a location depends, in addition to the efficiency of the people living there, primarily on how well it is connected to other places. This results in the importance of traffic routes. It is thanks to the construction of an excellent traffic network that Bavaria could complete a structural change from an agricultural to an industrial state and that it has today developed into one of the most attractive and strong economical locations in the world. This position is not just to be maintained, but to be strengthened. Bavaria shall master the structural change from an industrial to a telecommunications society with no less success.