While picture phones and video conferences have been predicted more enthusiastically than actually being accepted, further efforts are made to use modern phone networks for transmission of non-acoustical information too. Future broadband networks will be open for any kind of information if it can only be converted into digital signals. All media which have once been designed for different tasks are moving closer and will finally melt into one single Multimedium. The best schools, teachers, and courses will be available to everyone. Vast resources of art, literature, and science will be available everywhere.
Small manufacturers can get orders from all over the world electronically.
Everyone can obtain government information directly, thereby the citizen can get in touch with the government more easily. In fact, the only dramatic change which will occur is not the availability of information and knowledge to everybody, but a permanently available community itself. By cellular phones or remote computing it will be possible to reach everybody and to be reached by anybody. Private Media are a further development of well known mass media like newspaper or television, tailor-made for the individual interests of the user. Thereby an individual, unique magazine with a circulation of one is composed.