Riding the new integrated media systems wave

Integrated media systems will only achieve their potential they are truly integrated in three key ways: integration of content, integration with human users, and integration with other media systems. First, such systems must successfully combine digital video and audio, text, animation, graphics and knowledge about such information units and their interrelationships in real time. Second, they must integrate with the individual user via cooperatively interactive multidimensional dynamic interfaces. Third, integrated media systems must connect with other such systems and content-addressable multimedia databases, both logically and physically.