Description: Starting with a mind-boggling projection of an ordinary day in the life of an average family in the year 2008, he goes on to trace the technical and business developments that have already brought us encyclopaedias with moving pictures, terrifyingly realistic 3-D computer games and "virtual reality" house design. Opening up for us the secrets of the so-called Information Superhighway, he explains how Multimedia is already triggering a massive redevelopment of telecom and cable television networks and with it an upheaval in the high technology business world. He explains the jargon - CD-I and CD-Rom, broadband networks, video-on-demand, home shopping, virtual reality, interactive television, teleworking and much more - and offers a cool, and where necessary, sceptical analysis of the likely successes and failures in the complex world of Multimedia.

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