1.   Most industry observers believe that there is a huge commercial momentum building up in multimedia development.

2.   Although not a digital medium, the videodisc was the starting point for modern multimedia development.

3.   However, the strategy emphasises the pragmatic, uncommitted nature of current educational multimedia development, at least at the establishment level.

4.   To some extent, all that we have so far said about multimedia development is really a description of multimedia databases.

5.   Second, they must appreciate that their textual properties may only be a single element in a diverse multimedia development.

6.   One of the points we made was that even a few years in multimedia development is a very long time.

7.   What does all of this ferment mean for multimedia development?