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Steve <steve@nospam.org.nz> wrote in message
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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...

Wotabart those wot dont ave brains ?

Could shove it up their bum I spose.

> providing us with RAM storage locally and
> thought-access to national / global databases.

That wont happen, it would cause instant meltdown
in any self respecting national / global database.

> With a bit of genetic engineering, we may even be able
> to think fast enough to keep up with enhanced data flows....

Wotabart those wot ave ear to ear dog shit ?

> 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.

Gone blind yet ?

> The bottle neck won't be the network...it will be our brains.

Specially for those with ear to ear dog shit.

> It takes us far too long to learn stuff and with a very low
> confidence level. We all should have near-perfect memories.

Not those with ear to ear dog shit.

> 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.....

Bugger that with 'people' like you.

> perhaps in vast communities that find
> a way to functions as a collective mind.

Collective pile of dog shit more likely.

>> 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.

We're not all that different to Korea with the bulk of our population.

> Eas to wire up the urban areas. One connection
> to each apartment building with hundreds of units.

Cant be that easy, Optus has chosen to not wire those.

> In OZ, one connections connects
> one house. Far more expensive.

Odd that Optus has chosen to wire those.

Maybe its just another nice theory, pity about the reality...