Opening Australia to foreign investment, particularly from Japan, will not imperil the flower of Australian democracy,The notion that it should be protected by those great standard bearers of democracy - Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer - is past. There is no risk at all with foreign ownership and some of Japan's big dailies are interested in expanding their market place ... Tony O'Reilly
The Blog, The Press, The Media: From Velvet to Digital Revolution
The Digital Revolution is a term describing the effects of the rapid drop in cost and rapid expansion of power of digital devices such as computers and telecommunications.
The underlying technology was invented in the last half of the 20th century and became economical for widespread adoption after the invention of the PC. The digital revolution transformed technology that previously was analog into a binary representation of ones and zeros. By doing this, it became possible to make multiple generation copies that were as faithful as the original. In digital communications, for example, repeating hardware was able to amplify the digital signal and pass it on with no loss of information in the signal.
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