According to television commentator Charlie Brooker, this type of reality television was enabled by the advent of computer-based non-linear editing systems for video ( such as those produced by Avid Technology ) in 1989.

According to Mario Costa, the concept of the sublime should be examined first of all in relation to the epochal novelty of the digital technologies, and the technological artistic production: new media art, computer-based generative art, networking, telecommunication art.

According to Bolognini, web-based Delphis offer two further possibilities, relevant in the context of interactive policy-making and e-democracy.

Computer-Based Learning made up many early E-Learning courses such as those developed by Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz in the 1970s and 80s at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the ones developed at the University of Guelph in Canada.

Barry Wellman and the team of Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff also have done work on the concept of network society.

Turoff and Hiltz were the progenitors of an early computer supported communication system, called EIES.

The concepts described by Jan van Dijk, Barry Wellman, Hiltz and Turoff, and Manuel Castells are embodied in much digital technology.

* Hiltz, S. R., Johnson, K., & Turoff, M. ( 1986 ).

* 1994: Ivan Sutherland, Bill Atkinson, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lee Felsenstein, and the WELL ( the Whole Earth ' Lectronic Link )