What's over that horizon?
I've just been asked to take part in a discussion panel at the CRC conference. Most of the people present will be industry, university and government partners (it's after most of the students have been sent home), and the panel will mainly be composed of industry people from places like Telstra Business. I'm the token student on the panel...
The panel is called 'Fibre to the Home' and is about the National Broadband Network. It's all about personal perspectives on the NBN, so my background is as a small business owner and a consumer.
I'd like to pick your brains, though - if anyone would like to put their futurist thinking cap on...
- What would you want to do with dramatically faster broadband?
- What do you think would change, from the things you currently do?
- What currently unavailable things would you like to do?
It's a brainstorming session. We know that work is underway to provide much better internet access in Australia. We know that government and big business are excited about it. We don't really know what consumers and small businesses would do with it.
I'm confident that people (particularly games developers) will find a way to use any available technology. I'd really like to speculate on what some of those new uses might be.
The panel is called 'Fibre to the Home' and is about the National Broadband Network. It's all about personal perspectives on the NBN, so my background is as a small business owner and a consumer.
I'd like to pick your brains, though - if anyone would like to put their futurist thinking cap on...
- What would you want to do with dramatically faster broadband?
- What do you think would change, from the things you currently do?
- What currently unavailable things would you like to do?
It's a brainstorming session. We know that work is underway to provide much better internet access in Australia. We know that government and big business are excited about it. We don't really know what consumers and small businesses would do with it.
I'm confident that people (particularly games developers) will find a way to use any available technology. I'd really like to speculate on what some of those new uses might be.