A year for swashbuckling advances

[IQS.RLOW]

gradually the NBN will drive the cars

Dear fucking god

He's delusional

[Neferti]

Yup. But since wireless will be busy need the backbone of the NBN and we need the NBN for a reliable, secure network.

I picture a strand of the NBN along main roads, with low power mobile broadcasting devices every Km say. When conditions ahead are dangerous or blocked (flood say) drivers can be warned. As cars get more automated, more elaborate computers gradually the NBN will drive the cars, faster and more safely than humans can.

NBN = Not Bloody Needed.


We already have everything we CAN afford, just not at the speed of light ... nor need something that will cost our great, great grandkids a "service" that will be so out-dated before it is even established that it is only the rusted ons that believe it ever was a "good idea". .

[Jovial Monk]

Neferti~, seriously, do some reading.

http://delimiter.com.au/2012/02/01/corr ... ave-money/
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/02/03/corr ... be-higher/

Fibre is not going to be made obsolete any time soon. $35Bn over ten years is nothing, in the normal course the govt will spend $4Trn over ten years. God, Turnbull has moved from wireless to FTTN (which is just step that will end up costing much more as we move from FTTN to FTTH.

Not only that, the NBN will easily pay for itself, just for video on demand.

[Super Nova]

Neferti~, seriously, do some reading.

Fibre is not going to be made obsolete any time soon. $35Bn over ten years is nothing, in the normal course the govt will spend $4Trn over ten years. God, Turnbull has moved from wireless to FTTN (which is just step that will end up costing much more as we move from FTTN to FTTH.

Not only that, the NBN will easily pay for itself, just for video on demand.

There is a need for a backbone, NBN or not. That;'s just how it is. However there are many other solution that could have worked besides NBN. The fact that NBN is there is fine. The value for mioney debate is another issue.

The backbone is not as exciting as what mobility will bring. Wireless is the future, to make it work there needs to be a backbone to drive long distance traffice, it needs a big bandwidth. Whether it is one backbone or many is not of importance.

Australia's decision to back just one backbone is a gamble that needs to sometime to play out if it has picked the winner.

When is discover that neutrono go faster than light and we discover the subspace conections of infinite bandwidth, we will have wireless for all comms and physical fibre will be redundant. Note when not if.

[Jovial Monk]

You mean neutrino.

[Super Nova]

You mean neutrino.

Yes, you know I cannot spell.

[Neferti]

Neferti~, seriously, do some reading.

Who cares what Turnbull did or didn't do. He is a Lawyer. I'm surprised that you as a Labor voter would even consider him as anything other than the dickhead of the Libs.

I have had the Internet since August, 1995. Originally, I paid Microsoft $5 an HOUR to access it because there were no Australian Internet Service Providers ..... I recall paying about $350 one month when I found Chat Rooms on MS ... I still keep in touch with several American people from that era. So don't tell me about what you "want". Go out and get what you want yourself and stop whinging .. Life is what YOU make it, not what the Government does for you. Besides, who is going to pay for it in your family? You are a 'spinster' without issue .......

[Jovial Monk]

And, sure, fibre will be replaced some time, not within 60 years anyway, not when it can be upgraded to terabyte speeds.

Quantum computing will arrive, to network they will need a wave guide and fibre is an excellent wave guide.


Turnbull is the shadow minister for broadband, that is why I mention him. The NBN will be self-supporting, in fact it will make a mozza for the govt and for private investors if it gets privatised.

[Super Nova]

Quantum computing will arrive, to network they will need a wave guide and fibre is an excellent wave guide.

Quantum computing does not necessaryly equate to quantum level communications.

I think you are referring to to quantum state teleportation, that is the state of one quantum event being known instantly in another location. This has only been done over a very short distance.

However, we do need fibre for now. I don't know about 60 years, that's a bloody long time. I would say we need it for the next 10 years and it will be potentually redundant and 20 years later something better will be available to the masses.

[Neferti]

Turnbull is the shadow minister for broadband, that is why I mention him. The NBN will be self-supporting, in fact it will make a mozza for the govt and for private investors if it gets privatised.

Right ...... so why hasn't some Aussie multi-millionaire decided to do something about it? If it was such a fantastic idea and such a wonderful money maker, why hasn't Packer or Murdoch Jr decided to back such an idea? Nope .... ONLY a Labor Government would throw good money after something like this. Where do you think you will be in 60 years? Not sitting around here thinking how fast you can type and how much faster your word goes around the World, that's for sure. Just think that NONE of your offspring will ever know either.