[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:54 +1000, Stewart Fist wrote:
> > What I am saying is that broadband connectivity to *everywhere* as a
> > matter of course is one way to encourage decentralisation.
> 
> No you don't encourage decentralisation (in the sense of building
> life-style-rich alternate urban centers to Sydney and Melbourne) by building
> broadband or any other form of infrastructure *everywhere*.
> 
> You encourage it by selecting one of two areas with the ideal location and
> environment, and fund them excessively to make it worth-while people
> shifting.

I'm not sure that your idea conflicts with my idea. They are both ways
to encourage people out the the fringes of civilisation rather than
collecting them all in the middle. Except that my idea is "softer" and
requires vastly less money, vastly less planning, vastly less consensus,
vastly less - well, pretty much everything. And has vastly less impact
on the environment.

Oh, and it lets people choose where they want to live rather than making
it a "choice" between one or two huge cess-pits and a few somewhat
smaller ones. Albury? The "ideal location and environment?!? Puh-leease.

Regards, K.
 
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