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Negroponte has
been working in
computers since
before most
people had even
heard of them.
For decades he
was the prophet
of a revolution
which is now
upon us. "The
control bits of
that digital future
are in the hands of
the young," he
says. "Nothing
could make me
happier."
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Multimedia was
born, Negroponte
says, when MIT
was asked by the
US military to
devise a realistic
mapping system
for unfamiliar
surroundings.
This was the
Aspen Project:
the streets of
Aspen, Colorado,
were filmed from
the front of a
truck and put on
videodisk. An
interactive
program allowed
the user to 'drive'
around the town
on screen
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Multimedia's
combination of
sound, animation,
video and graphics
is only possible
because all those
information
sources can be
'digitized'. TV
transmissions
still use analog
networks - but
not for long. In
1992, Negroponte
predicted the
merging of all
electronic media
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For Negroponte
the information
superhighway is
more than a
telecommuni-
cations tool.
He is sure we are
racing to a brave,
new, digital world;
others may think
his vision sounds
like a nightmare
in a microchip
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Communications
in cyberspace
enable ideas and
information to be
exchanged freely
around the globe.
Negroponte and
others believe
that totalitarian
regimes will in
future be unable
to stem the
liberating tide of
information
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The development
of multimedia
has gone hand in
hand with tech-
niques such as
virtual reality
and computer
modeling. VR
has reached a
peak of sophist-
ication in flight
simulators, and
computer modeling
is used in archi-
tecture, design,
and now in
medicine too
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