Characteristics of knowledge products
Guttenbergs's printing press revolutionised human civilisation and sparked the mass media revolution. Five hundred years later, the printed document or an electronic version of it still largely governs the way we perceive information. But now we are seeing a convergence of media. Technologies that make representation, storage and distribution of not only text but of audio and video as easy as that of text have enabled us to advance beyond the 'document- oriented' paradigm. It is possible today for the development of products that are truly knowledge-based.