A discussion about the future of multimedia would not be complete without a foray into new types of media. Even recently, this would have seemed entirely in the realm of speculative science fiction. Now, however, we can actually see this in our own living rooms.
Although this last section is highly speculative, it is important to remember that changes can happen quickly on the Internet and within Drupal. For instance, YouTube didn't exist before 2005, and it opened a new model for embedding third-party videos that Drupal quickly embraced.
Humans have literally dreamed about virtual reality for probably their entire existence. Every night, each of us enters a simulated reality that competes with the world we experience during our waking state. The Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi, in a well-known musing, dreamed once that he was a butterfly. Upon waking, he wondered if it were he that dreamed of being a butterfly or if he were the butterfly dreaming of being Zhuangzi.
Though...