OPINION: We fashion tools that fashion us

By Kate Walker
Updated November 19 2014 - 9:18am, first published 2:00am

Fifteen years ago I wrote in this paper, that the “new telecommunication technologies will have a revolutionary impact on our lives, on the way we do things, on the way we think, on the way we relate to one another”. I was promoting a technology event, Yass Online 2D@y at the Memorial Hall. The Internet was so very new; mobile phones were large and limited in their usefulness; Twitter and Facebook, didn’t exist. I had thought it was important for everyone to understand what the new communication technologies were and how to use them. 

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