Digital resources tagged with ‘emerging technologies’

ABC Online & Broadband Production

What does the end of the 'golden age of Australian broadcast media' mean? Stuart Cunningham discusses the idea.

Australia dials up

Trevor Barr compares the complex and slow access to the Internet in the 1960s to today's high speed broadband service.

Beginnings of the Internet

Trevor Barr provides a brief history of the inception and development of the Internet.

Blogging

Blogging can be used as a means of pursuing a cause.

Broadcasts in cyberspace

Trevor Barr contrasts the privileged access to public television broadcasts with the free information exchange on the Internet. Stephen Mayne celebrates the value of ABC Online as a national resource and describes how activists have used the Internet to successfully broadcast their alternative views.

Hackers

In the 1980s members of an underground hacker community called The Realm hacked into the Internet via a university network.

Indymedia

Stuart Cunningham talks about how and why Australian content has changed over the last 40 years.

New technologies create new TV formats

John Safran talks about the unique techniques, structure and ideas of reality TV.

Nuclear Fall Out

Strontium 90, one of the deadliest poisons known, is a by product of the nuclear testing which Great Britain conducted in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s.

Online Communities

ALTOS - an online chat community based in Germany - provided a 'world without borders' for its members.

Sport - a spectacular television event

Behind the scenes of a transmission from Wembley Stadium, seen on Australian television.

The CSIRAC Computer

The story of the CSIRAC computer. Designed and constructed by the CSIRO, it was the first fully automatic electronic digital computer.

The Digital Divide

Trevor Barr reminds us that more than half of the world's population does not have access to the Internet. Stephen Mayne shares his belief that the digital divide will prevent Internet broadcasts from reaching entire populations in the way that television or radio broadcasts can.

The Digital Realm

Christina Spurgeon talks about crossing the digital divide.

The Tyranny of Distance

Behind the scenes with the people who work to provide land-line telephone services.

TV and family life

The Doonan family relax together at home in front of the television - their 'permanent visitor'. Liz Jacka describes the role of the the Vincent Committee in establishing local drama production for Austalian television. Megan Spencer remembers some of the shows she and her family watched together.

Water Regulation

With our harsh Australian climate subject to drought, artesian water and ground water is a resource that needs regulation.

Web & Pod Casting

Scott Goodings describes the experience of watching TV via webcasts over the internet.

World Internet Project

Trevor Barr links the rise in Internet users with the change in lifestyle practices of television audiences.

World Wide Web

Websites are the new vehicles for advertising.