title: [Media for 21st century--towards human communication media].
abstract: Today, with the approach of the 21st century, attention is focused on multi-media communications combining computer, visual and audio technologies. This article discusses the communication media target and the technological problems constituting the nucleus of multi-media. The communication media is becoming an environment from which no one can escape. Since the media has such a great power, what is needed now is not to predict the future technologies, but to estimate the future world and take to responsibility for future environments.
authors.affiliation: Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Harashima
mesh_terms: D003146:Communications Media / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D019212:Multimedia / Q000639:trends