Australian Computer Society
intiaa 1996 Conference
by Tom Worthington, President of the Australian Computer Society
1:15pm, Friday, 25 October 1996, Melbourne
< Contents >
< Introduction >
- Digital economy will have a profound effect on Australia
- Money is already "virtual"
- Goods and services will be traded on-line
< Digital Money >
- numerous schemes for electronic payments
- rely encryption for security
- which have sufficient or too much security?
- practical use by the end of 1996
Special Note: Advance Bank Announces Ecash, Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:30:20 +1000 (EST)
< Digital Commerce >
- issues for consumers & sellers:
- "where can I get a good deal for on-line transactions?"
- "what I can sell?"
- "what can I buy?"
- much like mail-order
- acceptable business practices for these new products/services?
< What is an electronic publication? >
- Most successful on-line businesses?
- What is an on-line publication?
- ACS doin academic publishing on-line
- Early on-line newspapers failed
- Publishing isn;t just distribution
- World's libraries and indexes will become valuable property
< Deconstruction and reconstruction of the economy >
- information industries taken apart & reassembled
- Organisations taken apart & reassembled
- networking is the glue
- Opportunity for exploitation or a more human form of organisation
< See also >