Technology changes what we imagine — and what actually happens.
From the archive garden of podcasts, experiments and technology, viewed again.
Inside RMIT’s world of 3D printing.
In 2016, I walked through RMIT’s Advanced Manufacturing Precinct in Melbourne, looking at additive manufacturing and machines building metal parts layer by layer.
At the time, 3D printing carried enormous expectations. It seemed possible that the technology might move rapidly from specialist laboratories and manufacturing environments into ordinary homes and everyday life.
The future arrived — just not everywhere.
Looking back, that gap is more interesting than the old predictions.
Additive manufacturing continued to develop in highly specialised areas, while printing everyday replacement parts at home never became as ordinary as many people imagined.
Technology is often not just about whether something works. It is about where it becomes useful enough, reliable enough and valuable enough to stay.
Explore the original RMIT 3D printing story and conversation.
When podcasting was still becoming infrastructure.
The original EATT magazine archive also captures a period when podcasting itself was changing quickly — recording software, mobile apps, live streaming, hosting platforms and new ways for independent voices to publish directly.
Conversations around platforms such as Spreaker and Libsyn now feel like snapshots of an internet that was still working out what podcasting could become.
The tools change. The behaviour remains.
Platforms come and go. Apps disappear. Links break and systems are replaced.
But something important remained: relatively simple technology gave people the ability to record an idea, publish it and reach listeners almost anywhere.
What once felt experimental gradually became ordinary infrastructure.
Explore the original conversation about podcasting and its changing technology.