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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 21:12:12 -0800
Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••>
Subject: Re: cj#295> The future of multimedia
> More powerful media-production software will
> open up multimedia production to individuals and organizations who
> lack the expertise required to operate today's studio equipment.
> The number of people and organizations who can produce
> useful multimedia will increase dramatically.
I know this is not the main point of your piece (which I agree with). I'm
merely not sure that "More powerful media-production software" will
necessarily have a dramatic impact on the number of people who produce
multimedia.
Prof. Weizenbaum provided a good analogy: he pointed out that most of the
movie cameras people buy just lie forgotten in a corner somewhere,
because to make a movie, you need more than just the right equipment --
you need an idea, and the willingness to put it lots of work.
Arun Mehta, B-69 Lajpat Nagar-I, New Delhi-24, India. Phone 6841172,6849103
"There is enough in the world for man's need, but not for his greed"--Gandhi
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Yes - only a small fraction of those who have production equipment will
have anything interesting to express with it. Nonetheless, the size of
that fraction will still be a hundredfold increase over the current number
of competent media producers. When you reach the point where a multimedia
studio costs the same as equipping a small rock & roll band, then you start
to get an evolution of new talent and ideas, I would imagine.
-rkm
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Posted by Richard K. Moore (•••@••.•••) Wexford, Ireland
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