Personal computer ownership and home internet access are also scarce, which makes young Bruce Brown’s generation the first to grow up in an Arnhem Land where smart phones and similar devices can browse the web, and can create, send and receive digital media and information with great ease. It is remarkable, however, that like many Indigenous communities located in regional Australia there was no mobile phone coverage on Elcho Island before 2006. These days, infants all around the world perform such feats all the time. Those of us who have lived in major cities over the past two decades have taken for granted the evolution of the mobile phone from unwieldy brick-like object to smart palm-sized computer with digital media and wireless networking capabilities.That a small child can send a video of himself will therefore seem not at all remarkable to many. Welcome to Australia as the 21st century’s second decade begins: a country where a small Indigenous child living in a remote island town off the far north coast can unwittingly pick up his father’s phone and send a video of himself to his grandfather’s colleague nearly 4000 kilometres away in the nation’s capital.
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