[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 13:10 +1000, David Lochrin wrote:
>    Yes, but back here on planet Earth actual decisions have to be made
> on the basis of some remote contact with cost & benefit.

And there speaks the mind that would not have bothered sending anyone to
the moon.

There was no direct benefit from that either, and precious few direct
"beneficiaries", but it spun off technologies that changed the world. It
created new professions, new markets, and new possibilities, most of
which were not, could not, have been predicted, even by the most
wild-eyed dreamers of the time.

Someone on "Planet Earth" had better get up to speed on the fact that
the future is about to happen. We can do our best to catch the wave, or
we can bob about in the wakes of those who thought bigger and faster
than we did.

It starts with the realisation that "cost and benefit" need to be looked
at from a different perspective. Not from perspective of the
small-minded, bean-counter perspective, but from the perspective of our
society as a whole.

Regards, K.

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