Tutorial 1

Q1. Briefly discuss the history and future of multimedia. How might multimedia be used to improve the lives of its users? How might it influence uses in negative ways? What might be its shortcomings?

Multimedia is a media which combine of text, audio, images, animation and video. The word multimedia was created in 1966. Multimedia instruments have evolved from text, audio, telecommunication devices, video, animation and more. In terms of multimedia's future, multimedia has great impact on us especially for our daily activities, public and social activities. So, multimedia does improve society's lifestyle even better by providing news, entertainments, inter-reactions and many more.

However, multimedia also do influence users in negative ways. Because multimedia has created convenience and ease of use to users, people apply multimedia in wrong ways, such as, privacy violation, public insult and many more that multimedia can edit or create from to hurt people and create false information. As for multimedia's shortcomings, multimedia also can be misuse by many companies to get something they want.

Q2. Multimedia is shifting from being localized (contained on a CD-ROM) to being distributed (available on the World Wide Web). What are some of the implications of this? Who will have access to the presentation? How will you keep it secure? How will you distribute it?

Multimedia needs huge amount of space or storage to store or retrieve. CD-ROM or compact disc read-only memory has become more cost effective distribution item for multimedia project other then DVD-ROM. A CD-ROM disc manage and automate every aspect of your business all within a single solution.

other than that, it allows people around the world to have access to multimedia. we can keep it secure with access ID and password and even with antivirus software. by World Wide Web, we can distribute multimedia even faster and with lowest cost and for even better is to advertise and promote on the social networking webs to get the efficiency and effectiveness of the distribution.