Multimedia Platforms - 1.1. Interactive multimedia and electronic publishing are products of this convergence, and their impact on all kinds of commmunication, from marketing to education, is likely to be profound.
Multimedia means different things in different contexts.
In education, interactivity is an important additional component of the specification. These are discussed briefly in section 1.1.3 . All this may change, of course, before the present volume is many months old, so rapid is the pace of technical development. Our expectation is that university hardware procurement policies will be forced to undergo radical changes in the next few years as the escalating costs and inefficiencies of current practices become intolerable. In the consumer world, the Commodore Amiga is king, though Apple has recently started to make serious efforts to penetrate the home computer market, where it will no doubt meet stiff competition from both the Amiga and low-end PCs, whose prices have recently been falling so dramatically.