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When multimedia behave natively and admit they are electronic media, one other factor comes into play: animation. The fundamental difference between printed, light reflective media and electronic, light emanating media is that the one has its prime reality in space and the other in time. Nothing changes inside the book when one chooses to close the cover. But when one turns off the computer, the screen disappears and must be reconstructed to be seen again. Electronic media are in process. On an old-fashioned “screen as print” page, one will find the most interesting element, probably, to be the flashing cursor. Electronic media in general but multimedia in particular live in animation. This does not have to mean little stick-figures dashing across the screen. It can be as simple as the process of writing or lines of teletype dumping themselves out on the screen letter by letter.
