My reply was to mojo’s assertion that wireless won’t complete with fibre. The point is that the internet is already easily 2.5 times faster than anyone needs at the moment, 25 times faster with 60GHz links, whether from fibre, wireless or copper (HFC). Wireless is quicker and easier to install, but requires more maintenance. OTOH, if the fibre breaks, it’s much more expensive to repair.
So everything is already well ahead of demand, and still improving. Nerds just can’t help themselves! But program downloads don’t have a lot of data. All the data people use is streaming: Netflix, YouTube, Stan etc, sports ..... not software updates. Even ping and latency times have improved enormously for wireless, maybe still double a fibre connection at 6ms, but even gamers don’t notice (as any Fortnight user will tell you, “guns don’t kill people, lag kills people”
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I’ve followed this carefully for twenty years, back when 2Mbps was miraculous and a ping was only important to show you had a pathway.
EVs are a different issue entirely. I’m not against them, not in the way you mean, they’re just expensive, impractical, run on subsidies, free parking and tolls, free electricity etc. - but when the party’s over:
https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/from-germany.4746943/#top
