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Why hypermedia systems are important

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Computer Assisted Learning (ICCAL 1992)

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In this paper we argue that the original vision of hypertext-pioneers in North America and Europe (yes, Europe also has had its hypertext visionaires!) that a non-linear widely distributed corpus of information accessible “everywhere by everyone” is still very much alive and becoming more and more a reality, even if some of the glamour has been stolen by stand-alone developments as started by Hypercard. We further contend that the advent of computer supported multi-media systems does provide not just acute alternative to present information but an enrichment of our sensory and communicative possibilities that will impact society in a major way. We finally conclude that the merging of large wide-spread hypertext systems with computer supported multimedia technology into powerful hypermedia systems will indeed provide a new kind of infrastructure for working, communicating, and thinking whose influence on how mankind will live, work, teach, and learn could be quite dazzling.

The support of my hypermedia work by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research is gratefully acknowledged.

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Maurer, H. (1992). Why hypermedia systems are important. In: Tomek, I. (eds) Computer Assisted Learning. ICCAL 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 602. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55578-1_52

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