[AusNOG] Simon Hackett's slide deck from AusNOG 2014 with added audio

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 20:21 +0930, Mark Prior wrote:
> at AusNOG (or even if you were and want to hear it again) you can
> watch [Simon Hackett's] keynote as a video on his blog site. It's 40
> minutes long but worth the time.
> <http://simonhackett.com/2014/09/06/rebooting-the-nbn/>

It's a long apology cum explanation of a the huge stuff-up that is the
increasingly-inaccurately-named NBN, a project that has been near
destroyed by people who know the price of everything and the value of
naught.

Simon's talk was made bearable only by the fact that it was Simon - a
credible voice, and we will forgive him anything. Everything he said was
true - and everything he said was irrelevant against the simple fact of
the utter, total, abject lack of any sort of vision for Australia's
networked future.

Simon spoke oh-so-condescendingly of those who dared to feel betrayed by
that, saying in effect that "anyone who doesn't understand all this is
just a puddle of entitlement looking for a pony. Because Whirlpool."
Hearts and minds, Simon, hearts and minds!

It would have been nice for there to have been a hint of vision in
Simon's talk. But it was all about how it's not as bad as we think, how
copper is alright, no really it is!, how things are so much better than
they look, and how it will all be alright eventually. Really? When? And
for what value of "alright" exactly?

Regards, K.

PS: Can we PLEASE never see that damn Parisian train again?

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