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Last broadcast on Mon, 19 Oct 2009, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
This week Simon Cox explores augmented reality: what can a digitally-enhanced landscape offer that the real one can't? He also speaks to a man who is creating an online archive of his entire life. Plus Pirate Party politics, and the importance of the online world to today's teens.
Augmented Reality
Augmented reality used to be the stuff of science fiction: think about those scenes in Terminator when Arnie looks through his cyborg specs to get information about the world around him. But now, thanks to developments in smartphone technology, augmented reality applications have become reality. Imagine looking through the camera of your mobile phone, and seeing digital images overlaid on top of the landscape. Simon finds out why we could all be living life through a cameraphone lens.
Pirate Party Politics
Simon speaks to Andrew Robinson, leader of the Pirate Party UK - which campaigns to reform existing copyright laws, and to legalise non-commercial filesharing. As Pirate Party branches the world over gain support, Ray Corrigan from the Open University, and technology journalist Rupert Goodwins, discuss the significance of this growing political movement.
Lifelogging
For over ten years, Gordon Bell has kept a digital archive of his entire life - emails, webpages, phone calls, photographs. It's part of an experiment in lifelogging, which Gordon and his colleague Jim Gemmell believe we'll all be doing in the future. Simon hears about their vision for an era of "Totall Recall" - when we'll all have digital memories at our fingertips.
Digital Natives
A just-published report into the technology habits of 16-24 year olds revealed that half of those asked felt happiest online, and three quarters of them couldn’t live without the internet. Simon is joined by the report's author Michael Hulme, and James Clay, manager of e-learning at Gloucestershire College - an institution which found that embracing social networking sites reduced their dropout rates - to discuss why it's important to recognise the needs of today's teens
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Mon 19 Oct 200916:30
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