Xploration Earth 2050

We find out how a man in New Zealand can send a paper-making machine to a remote area of Africa when it weighs over five times the amount that DHL's conveyor belts can handle. In New York, we'll find out how the couriers beat the infamous Manhattan morning gridlock to deliver urgent overnight packages to Wall Street. We'll also find out how it's possible for a man living in outback Australia to buy a T-shirt online from a company in the UK and receive it just three days later for less than it would cost in his local clothing store.

Australian inventors have boldly re-imagined communication across the spectrum of technologies: Graeme Clark's extraordinary bionic ear delivered deaf patients the sound of speech; John O'Sullivan and his CSIRO team created the world's first high-speed wi-fi that dramatically changed the communication landscape worldwide; Henry Sutton's visionary Telephane was designed in Ballarat decades before the television; and post-master James Raymond established the world's first pre-paid postage system in Sydney in 1838 with his delightfully simple pre-paid envelope.

A dying Netscape takes drastic measures to prove they're still cutting-edge. Pixelon launches iBash, a massive concert with a star-studded line-up.