Telstra will soon be snapped up by mums and dads of Australia eager to purchase the last chunk of an asset they already owned. Finally, Telstra will be free of government control and be able to use its powers for good rather than evil.
Soon a high-speed network of carrier pigeons will be rolled out to the regional areas of this wide brown land, enabling fairly instant and reliableish communications to most of the rest of the population, weather permitting.
This NextP network is merely a precursor to a genetically modified generation of mutant pigeons caused by the nuclear waste dumps that will soon utilise the more sparsely populated regions of the continent to their fullest potential. These SuperNextP highspeed broadband pigeons will have legs long enough to tie photos around and also glow in the dark for overnight delivery.
As your message flutters off overhead at the speed of pigeon, the wet splat that lands on your scalp probably isn’t a raindrop, but is a token of the regard that any privatised utility holds for an unprofitable sector of the market.
Kudelka, if we ever get our country back, you’ll be a shoo-in for National Living Treasure. Though by then you may have had to change yr title several times … 202 Uses … 303 … ? An old song, “In the year 2525″ comes to mind …
Yep, I’m pencilled in to take over from Thorpie as National Living Treasure around 2050.
bit of a leap of faith dontcha reckon that john dubya would be thinking as far forward in his own mind as the 1990′s, but doesn’t he know IP Over Avian Carrier has already been drafted?
i mean hell, he’s way out of the loop, our new chinese overlords are already implementing it.