
Multimedia Literacy
Chapter 12: Multimedia Frontiers
After completing this chapter, you will know how to:
- Identify the frontiers that multimedia researchers are investigating
- Study technologies that are emerging
- Know what is meant by the term rural datafication
- Explore how virtual reality will improve the multimedia user interface
- Dream about the multimedia possibilities of appliance-based computing
- Consider whether there are other frontiers of multimedia needing to be explored
- Weigh the challenge of pen computing with the ongoing promise of speech recognition
- Imagine how ubiquitous Starlink will make the Internet when the wireless satellite network encircles the globe