[LINK] maturity for Australian internet - more comment

[Andrew Thornton]

Fine. It's not the vendor's job to check internet portability. Nor is it 
the government's job.

Sigh.

I am a 3D modeller with zbrush and lightwave and other high-end 
software. My vocation is a mix of 2D and 3D graphics design and art. 
There is absolutely no way, I assure you, that I would be able to 
produce professional work if I had a slow internet. I have to have ADSL 
at least, and the higher the speed the better. My need for speed for 
increase over the next 2 to 5 years as 3D home printers lead to more 3D 
work for people such as myself.

If I were PM for a day my first step for Australia's manufacturing 
industry would be to make Australia a world leader in 3D printing in an 
industrial context. Of course this technology has existed for decades. 
But its applications in everything from biology to making nano robots 
are only beginning to be realized. Along with nanobots, genetic 
engineering and drones, 3D prin ting will shock the world over the next 
10 years.

So yeah. It's my problem to sort my internet out. Just trying to 
contribute to the tax base. But that is my problem as well [sarcasm].

Andrew





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>                        Further to a newspaper article of about 2 weeks
> ago [Age?] in which a journalist said that she moved house and ended up
> with pitiful internet, will we ever reach a state of maturity in
> Australia? Namely, will internet become the same as water, gas or
> electricity in terms of mobility? I should be able to move from one
> house to another and know that as a professional internet user I won't
> be left high and dry.
>
>                        In the NBN debate this aspect seems to have been
> absent and I find that curious.
>
>                       Andrew
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> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:00:58 +1030
> From: Brenda Aynsley <bpa at iss.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [LINK] maturity for the Australian internet?
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> On 30/10/13 14:48, Andrew Thornton wrote:
>>                         Further to a newspaper article of about 2 weeks
>> ago [Age?] in which a journalist said that she moved house and ended up
>> with pitiful internet, will we ever reach a state of maturity in
>> Australia? Namely, will internet become the same as water, gas or
>> electricity in terms of mobility? I should be able to move from one
>> house to another and know that as a professional internet user I won't
>> be left high and dry.
>>
>>                         In the NBN debate this aspect seems to have been
>> absent and I find that curious.
>>
>
> Is it so curious even today?
>
> Going to some places in Australia you still get to use septic sewerage
> systems, even some thunderboxes - but more rarely.  If I was moving to a
> place that I suspected would have a problem with internet access, that
> would be a factor to be taken into account in the decision to move to
> that location.  I dont think its the vendor's problem to point out any
> inadequacy any more than I think its the government's job to ensure that
> this situation doesnt exist in broad terms (ie cost vs benefit).
>
> And yes this is a very unequal position to hold but it's the reality of
> living in a very large land mass with so few people in it that makes the
> economics of service provision problematic.
>
>
> cheers
> brenda
>
>
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