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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia, Hypermedia, Hypertext?
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Date: 5 Feb 91 21:34:49 GMT
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>2. Many people say "multimedia" when they mean "hypermedia". Should
>we distinguish between these terms. Is non-interactive multimedia
>even interesting?


"Multi" indicates quantity, "Hyper" indicates quality. In HyperMedia you
put several media together in such a terrific way, so the unity becomes a
new sort of medium: a HyperMedium.
 
Sound-film is an example of a HYPERmedium: Two different media, phonography
and cinema, make a new medium. Note that cinema (and TV) is non-interactive!

A typical example of MULTImedia is all these live music conserts with
lasers, fireworks, computer aided animation, etc. etc. (Thinking esp. of 
Jean-Michel Jarre's concert, 14 July in Paris). These conserts are neither
hyper nor interactive, but impressive!

Just MHO...

    /Olle