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Computing & the networked world
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Computing and the Net
As the internet changes the way we relate to each other, and computers become so small they find their way into ever more unexpected places, what does the future hold for computing and the networked world?

Electronic thoughts

A microchip - holding a mind?
Could machines start to consider their own existence? Could computers develop artificial intelligence?

Free software

Using Microsoft Windows

Is money tight? Save some cash by spending less on your computer: discover five ways to use free software.

iPhone: The 40 year old vision

The iPhone

Discover why the iPhone owes a debt to some 1968 forward-thinking.

 

A clear future?

Snow on a TV screen

Despite the spread of the big screen TV, there's still not much taking advantage of them: whatever happened to HD?

A great leap forward?

BBC iPlayer

Are online TV services such a great leap forward, or is Kangaroo a dead cat bounce?

 

Taking it further

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Link up with new ways of thinking, new ways of working, new ways of taking it further.

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