By the time that the NBN broadband rollout is completed, all the fibre optic cables will be good for is dog leashes! It will be obsolete technology long ago!
Very few are arguing about the merits of having broadband but fewer people are seeing the practical realities of the time taken to produce the NBN broadband rollout. They are talking 8 years? Seriously! Technology will have bypassed the need for fibre optics well before the rollout is completed.
In 1910 my father used take 3 days to do the family shopping, as he lived 65 kilometres from town. He used take one day to travel to town by sulky, the second day was for shopping and the third day he would return home! But within the space of 50 years he saw a man put on the moon in 1969. He flew regularly on airlines, had colour TV, and UHF radio too. That is how quickly technological advances happened. And now they are happening even faster.
Just think of these technological advances!
- The fist fax machine was seen in 1984
- Mobile phones were introduced 20 years ago
- Twitter wasn’t heard of until three years ago
- iPhones , Blackberrys, iPads you name it, are popping up every day
From the speed of change it can be concluded that NBN broadband will never be built!?
It is time both sides of politics admitted the folly about NBN broadband rollout instead of talking about the cost or the kilobytes all the time!
Who can predict what technology will be doing in 8 years? Who can predict what it will be doing in 8 months, 8 weeks or for that matter 8 days?
NBN broadband rollout is a pipedream just like the story about the King’s Clothes (se link below) And just like the King and his subjects, we are deluding ourselves, talking up the virtues of NBN broadband rollout because we don’t want to admit to ourselves that the rollout is pure fantasy.
Jim Gleeson
