An Exclusive Invitation to witness ...

[Michael Grove]

You are about to witness history in the making.

As Machiavelli wrote in 1513 ...

"no one truly believes anything until they have had actual experience of it"

We have invited you all here today - manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, consultants, clients and potential clients, to witness "The ART of the POSSIBLE"


"The ART of the POSSIBLE" in relation to Interactive Multimedia Communications.

1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial

The vision that has brought us here today is my own vision, one which I have had since a child.

 

A vision of a time when we would not necessarily have to communicate our ideas through words and numbers, or pictures, or films, or sound alone, but in ways that were an amalgum of all these media.

After several years of involvement with the computer industry, my own experience of mainframes, minis and personal computers led me to pronounce in 1987 - with the advent of the Apple Macintosh II and its open architecture, colour and Hypercard, "That the first piece of the jigsaw was in place " - & that my suggestion, as consultant to Apple Inc. , was that - " Hypercard was so important that it should be sold for $3500 and the Macintosh given away with it free of charge "

Since that time, the Macintosh II computer has been developed and configured to interface with every individual medium of communication - be it in print, graphics, modelling, animation, photography, video or sound - in the most advanced network environments thus far established. It is this relationship which allows us, as individuals, to interact with each of the individual media in a "cut & paste" "WYSIWYG" fashion.
 
The key point now , however, is that the common networked client platform for interaction across all media types is the Apple Macintosh. A platform which allows us to "cut & paste " across all media types not just within media types.

Interactive Multimedia is thus - a new communications medium - a medium which, in itself, is an amalgam of other electronic media, but, more so, an enabling technology which has the capability of "gluing" together different combinations of media (multimedia) in the same intuitive and consistent way that we have become used to with the Macintosh itself.

A medium which will allow us, as a result of customisable configuration, to construct interactive computer integrated solutions as easily as we can use Lego building blocks. These solutions which will enable us to do things which we have never before been able to do - in a more creative and cost effective manner.

Throughout this event we will be demonstrating - a fully working design studio - and will be playing through an architectural project - from initial concept - to hardcopy, videotape, compact disc and electronic presentation.

We perceive that what we have put together in this design studio is the minimum design solution for a multimedia resource centre. A facility which provides all the capabilities of networked electronic input,
production and output. The three most important components of any communications medium.

An interactive multimedia bureau, in fact.

What is now important is to start utilising the " The ART of the POSSIBLE " today for the purposes of wealth creation such that we can move onto laying the foundations of the 1000 piece jigsaw over the next several years.

 

"Imagination alone can give us a vision of the future."

"Interactive Multimedia Simulations of the reality allow us all to explore that vision."

First posted by Michael Grove on November 22, 1990 at 9:00

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5 months later

Michael said

Entrepreneurs create their businesses for a diversity of reasons. However, I believe that most of the greatest companies in the world also have great purposes which were discovered and/or created by their original founders and which still remain at the core of their business models. Having a deeper, more transcendent purpose is highly energizing for all of the various interdependent stakeholders, including the customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and the larger communities in which the business participates. While these deeper, more transcendent purposes have unique expressions at each business they also can be grouped into certain well known and timeless categories. Philosophy dates back to Plato the timeless ideals of “The Good”, “The True”, and “The Beautiful” that humanity has been seeking to create, discover, and express for thousands of years. If we add the ideal of “The Heroic” to the above three we have the framework of higher ideals which most great businesses seek to express in some form or fashion.

John Mackey

over 2 years later

Godess of Love said

Okay , I came here , cause , this is something we need , and I will look deeper . Just need to make a note were , this is for me. When I was younger we had a computer at work with a touch screen.

It was so easy, and were able to do what you needed , I guess for me.

I see , yet I need to have things that I can understand, not just in my mind yet when I see , I touch , I feel, I hear. You know , you are , brillant, man.

I hear you voice , and know, yet how can we work together to make this work , and make it powerful, so the world will say wow! You wrote this Blog , many moons ago, so more , thoughts , are within, and I believe what this is about will be stunning, simply stunning.

You are amazing,my dear friend.

Love to you ,

Lori

over 2 years later

Michael said

EACH and EVERYONE of our species has to BE ”HEROIC” in order that we may ...  

collectively manifest  Truth Beauty and Goodness as THE ONE …

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