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Connecting with Culture: Technology

Welcome to the Technology section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.

Rocket Man

  • Date:

    11-12-2009

  • Author:

    Jason Gardner

'Enterprise'. It won't be piloted by Captain Kirk, but that's what Richard Branson has dubbed his ground-breaking - well, atmosphere-breaking, if we're splitting hairs - commercial space vehicle. Unveiling the carbon composite craft in California's Mojave desert this week, Branson announced to the world that travel beyond the stratosphere will soon...

Holiday Reading

  • Date:

    07-08-2009

  • Author:

    Kester Brewin

With August and the summer holiday season upon us, we offer you the following, to take away with you, and to reflect on...

Broadband, Narrow Vision?

  • Date:

    19-06-2009

  • Author:

    Nigel Hopper

From the coordination via social networking websites of protests in Iran, to the phasing out of textbooks in favour of online learning resources in California, to your viewing of this article wherever you are in the world, Internet technology has changed the way we live.

Stop the Future, I want to Get Off

  • Date:

    12-06-2009

  • Author:

    Jason Gardner

Remember Mighty Mouse? A tough little fellow - albeit a cartoon character - who was the super-powered saviour of rodent kind. Well, truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and not all that long ago scientists found a way of introducing a muscle growth stimulant into mice via a virus.

Twitter

  • Date:

    24-04-2009

  • Author:

    John Lee

So, have you ‘tweeted’ today? Such is the speed with which Internet trends take hold of the public imagination that Twitter has, within just a few months, become a fixture of news, radio and entertainment media; a widely-discussed new phenomenon of online expression.

Nothing's Better than the Real Thing

Facebook

Virtual Reward?

Fable

Life on Mars

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Out of this World? The View of Mars

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