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How Amsterdam Was Wired for Open Access Fibre

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  • 19-03-2010 11:06am
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    Sponge Bob
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    Post here in the BB Forum

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055858734

    It primarily references this Ars Technica piece

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-amsterdam-was-wired-for-open-access-fiber.ars/

    A key starting point for these initiatives is ambition and an ambitious city that understands how modern societal and economic glue is mixed. Not only is much of the future 'always on' but most of the debate and policy on what the future actually is is online and happening all around us.

    The past drinks cups of tea in community centres, the future needs no physical community centre at all in many cases :(

    Irish cities are collectively and individually stupid and are collectively and individually incapable of visualising a knowledge economy. There are honourable exceptions to that but they constantly battle a heaving moronic morass in trying to present a simple clear and farsighted vision.

    Our government is even stupider and only 3 or 4 cabinet ministers can even begin to understand a knowledge economy and its requirements.....none of whom are directly tasked with its implementation.

    The opposition is equally cretinous .....on the whole.

    Meanwhile Amsterdam and many comparable European cities disappear off into the future while in Dublin one is often left begging for a guaranteed 1mbit low latency connection.


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