Supercommunicator

The Dawn of the Multimedia Age

The early digital era—our very recent past—has been about transplanting offline material online. That's in the process of changing. Jeff Stanger, founder of the Center for Digital Information, says many of us use the Internet to deliver the same kind of content we've generated for generations—it just so happens that we're transmitting them electronically. We write documents, possibly add a few graphic embellishments, save them as Word, PowerPoint, or pdf files, and then post them to a website or send them through cyberspace to another destination as an email attachment. When the receiving or requesting party opens ...