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                      AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY

                     Australia: The Networked Nation

                           by Tom Worthington
               President of the Australian Computer Society

                At the ACS North Queensland Chapter - AGM
                        Wednesday, 7 February 1996
             Audio/visual room of the Townsville Grammar School

  Summary
  
   Tom Worthington, President of the Australian Computer Society 
   provides a "future history" of information technology in Australia
   in the year 2005 (after warning of the limitations of such 
   predictions): The Internet will become dominant for communications. 
   Wireless connections will replace Pay TV cable to homes. PCs will be 
   replaced by cheap disposable calculator like devices, downloading 
   data and programs from the Internet. Net regulation will influence 
   election outcomes. Big companies will be replaced by small networked 
   businesses of teleworkers. Australia will dominate the world 
   information economy, in partnership with Asia.

If you can't get to Townsville, the Web version of my talk (with 
links to technology, organisations and individuals mentioned) is 
available at:

	<URL: http://www.peg.apc.org/~tomw/twadd3.htm>

The perceptive reader will note this "future history" contains 
some comment on the IT and telecommunications policies of both the 
currentGovernment and opposition contesting the Federal election.

  About the ACS
  
   The Australian Computer Society is the professional association in
   Australia for those in the computing and information technology
   fields. It was established in 1966. The Society has over 15,000
   members and on a per capita basis is one of the largest computer
   societies in the world.



Tom Worthington <tomw@acslink.net.au>  http://acslink.net.au/~tomw, 
President, Australian Computer Society Inc, 
GPO Box 446, Canberra ACT 2601