I think Jill Tatem has leaped, and intriguingly so, very far (or perhaps not so far) into the future. The quotation from the article in Internet World reminds me of the television commercial (which I have not seen lately) in which Norfolk and Western used some not-terribly-fancy computer graphics (including a running horse) to promote a railroad (what the Tofflers might call Third Wave media to promote a Second Wave product). There is something jarring about it. If the quotation from the article is even close to predicting the future, then advertising on the Internet will be literally interactive: the user will be moving inside a prospective vehicle, moving within a prospective landscape, and similarly in a host of other areas. Is the lesson then that commiting finding aids to WWW, at least in the former's present form, is akin to using an electronic medium for essentially a paper-, print-, and linear-oriented document? How about some hypertextual finding aids? Interactive finding aids? Moving pictures? Still photos? Computer graphics to give the user the feel and atmosphere of your search room? (Of course, perhaps no one will need a search room in the future....) This may sound a bit wooly, and perhaps my rushed message is, but this sort of scenario is not as far away as some of us think. Ed Southern [log in to unmask] N.C. Division of Archives and History (Opinions expressed in this message may not represent the policy of my agency.)