The perfect is the enemy of the good
The perfect is the enemy of the good
Nice quote from Mark Pesce, who has an op ed piece in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald about the world full of surprises which will open up with the government’s very hi-speed broadband network.
Update: I liked this piece on the same topic in Crikey as well, and not just for it’s description of Conroy as going “From feather duster to rooster in one announcement” :)
This is also a decision that almost certainly would never have been made while Kerry Packer was still alive and running the Nine Network. This is a TV killer. The new network will establish an additional high-capacity delivery mechanism for content into — and out of — each Australian home, with far greater capacity than free-to-air television. Existing content providers in free-to-air and subscription TV will have to migrate to the new network or watch their competitors, and new entrants do so — and they will do so anyway. Each home will have the capacity to send content out to a community of users. The fragmentation of audiences will accelerate massively. In the old days, this would have been nobbled, like Packer nobbled digital TV.
Ruefully true.