Gutenberg’s printing press revolutionized human civilization and sparked the ‘mass media’ revolution. Five hundred years later, the printed document or electronic representations of print still govern the way we perceive information. But now, we’re witnessing a convergence of technologies in an “information and communication boom.”

Technologies that make representation, storage and distribution of audio and video as easy as that of text are now available and those that can even distribute tactile sensations like smell and taste may emerge in the early part of this century. This advancement beyond the traditional “document-oriented” paradigm has significant implications for society.


Document Orientation

When you go beyond documents and deal with non-structured forms of information, you encounter at least two new problems. First, many of them are “streamed,” so in addition to the fact that they are real-time and voluminous, you don’t have the luxury of reusing all the access techniques you used with documents. Second, most of the information content is “space-time critical,” so if you don’t get it at the right time, at the right place, and in the correct form, the information may very well be useless.

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