The Great Multimedia Debate

摘要

Adaddy tucking his daughter into bed whispers, "And the handsome prince gently slipped the shoe onto her tiny foot. Now guess what happened next." The daughter says, "Is there a choice menu?" Relax, this essay isn't going to be interactive. No decision buttons, no menus, no hypertext links. In fact, no choices at all. Instead, I'll just tell you what I think. If you find this comforting, you're either older than 40 or suffering from perfluxity—or both. Perfluxity is the feeling that you're drowning in a flux of information. It's the hunch that the world has recently shattered into a billion bits of data and your only glue gun is a tiny cursor skidding around in cyberspace. On the other hand, if you're under 40 or otherwise cozy on the Infobahn, you're probably already bored to tears by the linear nature of this essay.