Abstract
What is cinema becoming? All around us -- in the laboratory, in theme parks and museums, on CD-ROMs and home computers, across the World Wide Web -- stories are being transformed by technological possibility. The proliferation of VCRs, the remote control, and affordable home video cameras have already created a society of audience which expects a certain amount of individual control over their own information destiny. As new and more powerful devices appear and proliferate, storytelling media will transform into something more personalized and conversational; as "stories with a sense of themselves" come into being, narrative will evolve from fixed, monolithic forms into something more personalized and responsive to the wishes (and whims) of their audience...

Oberhausen International Film Festival
http://mf.media.mit.edu/pubs/conference/EveryonesCinema.pdf