Questions on Interactive Multimedia Systems

This morning I did a presentation about my perspective on interactive multimedia (yes, I hate that word too!) systems. Even done on the fly (assignment given the same morning), the exercise was very pleasant. I had to answer and discuss the four questions:

What kind of IMMs will we construct 5-10 years from now? 20-50 years?
What are the key enabling technologies?
What are the key enabling concepts?
What are your examples?
Please use your favorit artist/researcher/project to illustrate your arguments.

And here are the slides of my presentation.

Relation to my thesis: Among other topics, we got into the discussion on the abuse of the word “intelligent” (perception, cognitive, …). In the key enabling technologies, I only mention interface technologies and I do not talk about any approach (e.g. biology) to process information and render “intelligence” and emotions. This is mainly because I see these processes as peripheral and remotely believe in the smartness of single things. AI is facing the same issues with complexity. Google is not intelligent! My pragmatic approach applies to the path to the goal, not to the goal itself.