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Over the last five or six years everybody has been talking about multimedia computing and how it would change our ways of doing business and of running our everyday lives. This discussion has been mostly based on technology becoming available, rather than a need of society itself to go ‘multimedia’. The continuing search for a so called ‘killer’-application is sufficient proof of this.
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Klas, W., Aberer, K. (1997). Multimedia and its Impact on Database System Architectures. In: Apers, P.M.G., Blanken, H.M., Houtsma, M.A.W. (eds) Multimedia Databases in Perspective. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0957-0_3
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