Are Spiderman and Obama right?
While at the v21 conference earlier this year, I was reminded of how the NBN roll-out will enable downloads of 1GB per second over the internet, almost ten times faster than it is today. What does this mean for the everyday user? It means you will be able to browse your favourite website, whilst downloading a movie or your favourite album and uploading your holiday pictures to Facebook without any delay. Exciting?
However, in the words of Spiderman and Barack Obama said, ‘with great power, comes great responsibility’.
With an increase in power usage across our broadband network it means we need to use more energy to operate it. This in turn leads to much greater carbon omissions which need to be offset. Has this been taken into account?
Just because we will have the capability to reach this kind of power, does it mean we should? Your thoughts?
Hi there,
I think younger people will definitely see the benefits of this sort of download speed as will many businesses. I’m not sure that I need my broadband at home to go any faster though. It’s interesting that the labour party are bashing the liberals for the number of mobile phone base stations that will be needed to go with their broadband plan when the NBN system will be requiring huge cabinets to be installed on many nature reserves. I don’t think the general public will be quite as happy then!