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Digital Planet: 28/12/2010

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28/12/2010

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The best of 2010 in this special programme, including the film The Social Network

The best of 2010 in this special programme including the film The Social Network; SXSWi Quiz; Brian Eno + David Hockney; Tech in Cape Town;  Education; 3D Printing and TV

Review of 2010
We look back at the year that computer coding went mainstream and as geeks took centre stage in one of the year's biggest movies, The Social Network.  There was also the World Cup, so Digital Planet went beyond the tournament to uncover some technology secrets in Cape Town.  We asked you for your favourites and we have added them to ours.

The Social Network
Digital Planet sent reporter Tom Brook to Hollywood to report on the film of the story of Facebook.  Bill Thompson and Gareth Mitchell discuss the movie.

Brian Eno and David Hockney
Digital Planet caught up with two very famous technology adopters – Brian Eno and David Hockney.  Producer, composer and former Roxy Music member Brian Eno wrote the music for the Spore game title.  We spoke to him about his music and his work 77 Million Paintings in which a series of Brian's drawings are digitised and then overlaid and manipulated randomly.  In November, we heard from another big name artist who had originated his work completely digitally – originally using his iPhone and then a tablet computer.  This was British artist David Hockney, speaking to us at an exhibition of the work displayed on iPads hung on the gallery walls. 

South by Southwest Quiz
In March, the team went to the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin Texas – one of the big events on the annual tech calendar.  Usually we were there to report on the happenings, this time round we were one of the events on the festival programme, with our Digital Planet interactive technology Quiz recorded in front of a live audience.  Listener Chandra Sekar in Bangalore, India on our Facebook group wanted to hear some of that quiz again so we obliged.

Tech in Cape Town
At the beginning of June and the build up to the World Cup in South Africa, Gareth Mitchell travelled to South Africa to report on technology not football.  The goal was to sneak away from all the soccer hype, to venture from the tournament to the townships and dig out what digital means for everyday life for the people of Cape Town. 

Education
Lecturer Nadia Hussain on our Facebook group said about this programme:  "The show opened up my eyes to different possibilities of how I could further integrate technology in my daily teaching since I'm a professor of physiology teaching medical students."  We have been working a lot with our colleagues at the Open University this year and one of the collaborations that was a particular favourite amongst our Planeters on the Digital Planet Facebook group was our show in February about technology in education.  We have chosen to replay the report on laptops into class in Sao Paulo in Brazil and a teacher in Melbourne podcasting his lectures as well a service to help with language learning in Bangladesh - just call a number from your mobile and listen in to a language class down the phone.

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