[LINK] re: Australia: Networked Nation - talk to ACS NQ AGM 7 Feb

[Tom Worthington]

I wrote Fri, 2 Feb 1996 23:21:52 +1100 
<http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/1996-February/023403.html>:

>... this "future history" contains some comment 
>on the IT and telecommunications policies of 
>both the current Government and opposition, 
>contesting the Federal election. ...

Be careful what you put online 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/twadd3.htm> as you never 
know who will quote it, ten years later before another election:

"In 1996, the then President of the Australian 
Computer Society, Mr Tom Worthington — whom I am 
pleased to see is here today—gave a speech in 
which he envisioned the world 10 years on in 2005.

In this tongue-in-cheek vision, he predicted the 
winner of the 1996 election would de-regulate the 
Telecommunications industry; I am happy to report 
his skills as a seer were spot on when we were 
elected a year later, and did in fact get the Telstra privatisation underway.

Tom also predicted that Telstra and Optus would 
rollout a significant cable network for Pay TV; and they certainly have.

And he predicted that competition from Internet 
voice applications would start to destroy the 
long distance monopoly the telcos had enjoyed.

Again, Tom was on the money. ..."

From: Developing a National ICT Capability, 
Address to ACS Council Breakfast, Senator the Hon 
Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, 
Information Technology and the Arts, Deputy 
Leader of the Government in the Senate, Canberra, 
Friday 25 May 2007: 
<http://www.minister.dcita.gov.au/media/speeches/developing_a_national_ict_capability>.

;-)



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