A few years from now the BBC won’t be a broadcaster but rather a “datacaster,” according to chief technology officer Matthew Postgate, who is leading a Corporation-wide overhaul of skills, connectivity, and outsourcing intended to transition the broadcaster to a “digital first internet-oriented organisation.” Postgate is responsible for the technology and systems that deliver the BBC’s broadcast services, and for all of its IT technology and services. Based in research labs in the North and South of the UK, the department comprises around 200 specialist research engineers, scientists, ethnographers, designers, and producers, working on every aspect of the broadcast chain, from audiences, production, and distribution through to programme production…