In video interviews that preceded each performance, and in program notes, opera was described as the ultimate medium for musical exploration, and conservative gatekeepers were deplored.
In some ways, observed Nico Macdonald, a principal of Spy, a London-based research firm, e-mail has become the ultimate medium through which humans use computers -- to organize discussion groups, deliver news stories, confirm purchases, signal updates to Web pages or play chess.
"I've always felt that film was the ultimate medium since it's able to touch on so many different senses," Smith explains, "and the gesture I'm doing in the exhibition is so subtle that I needed something to guarantee that it would set the tone".
It is the ultimate medium for constant self-promotion.
Among the various imaging modalities for visualization of bony anatomy, CT is by far the ultimate medium, with the highest resolution.
Rounding out this premium picture, the series offers Fine Motion Enhanced technology for 120Hz Frame Rate Conversion and a fast pixel response time of 4ms, providing the ultimate medium for high-definition viewing, ensuring viewers never miss a detail.
"We realized that VR is the ultimate medium to not only capture the raw energy of dance but to bring to it something that has never been possible before," says Baldwin. "To let the audience dance with the performer to make the audience feel as if they are wildly adept dancer, and to feel their body doing things they never thought possible".
Or it's like writing a novel without the letter 'P'… It's the ultimate irresponsible medium.
TELEVISION may be the ultimate "green" medium, recycling ideas that go in one era and out the other.
I think "it" can become the ultimate news medium, as defined by "All the news that's fit to tweet".
In the lexicon of McLuhan, the Web would be the ultimate "cool" medium defined by participation and a multiplicity of inputs.
