(1), the multimedia hurricane is about to hit the edifice of human culture head-on.
This essay is my first attempt. It's crude, I know, and yes, we're going to have to do something about the sound quality. MIME still lacks a standard hi-fi audio subtype, though folks are working on it, and it doesn't help any that I'm singing directly into the audio device on my Sparcbook, via a cheap but delightfully tiny Sony microphone:
