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Snoopy wrote:

> ISDN (integrated services digital network), DSL (digital subscriber
> lines) or some sort of wireless alternative?   Where is the future for
> Australia and New Zealand?


ADSLand cable....the future is here.

*Ultimately*???

We will have wireless Net access communicating directly with 
brain-implanted "data and communcation" aids...providing us with RAM 
storage locally and thought-access to national / global databases.

With a bit of genetic engineering, we may even be able to think fast 
enough to keep up with enhanced data flows....or offload certain thought 
processes to faster, external units. Like memories....except the sound 
and video and sensations are "filmed" by your sense rather than a video 
camera.

The bottle neck won't be the network...it will be our brains. It takes 
us far too long to learn stuff and with a very low confidence level. We 
all should have near-perfect memories.

But even this is technology.Ultimately, hopefully we will be 
energy-based....and think and travel at the speed of light..and 
effectively live forever.....perhaps in vast communities that find a way 
to functions as a collective mind.

> I read an article that says Australia is years behind some Asian
> countries (June 2001 figures:  Aus market population penetration 1% vs
> South Korea 12%).   Does this matter?


Aussie ='s BIG

S. Korea ='s SMALL.....with high population denisty. Eas to wire up the 
urban areas. One connection to each apartment building with hundreds of 
units. In OZ, one connections connects one house. Far more expensive.

 
> The same article went on to prerdict that the main driver of broadband
> use would be  a tendency of companies to operate software by buying a
> subscription licence 'off site'.  My impression was that this was a
> fantasy, but are there any companies in Australia or New Zealand doing
> it? 

E-Solutions.

.Net form Microsoft was the way of the future.....but they canned that 
yesterday.....so there will now be no future.