The only viable thing for society that i can see could support a need for such high speeds offered by the NBN (No Big Need) is that a doctor can appear like Obe 1 Kinobe, in full dress in your doorway as a virtual image. The Doc will answer any questions about your health and to diagnose that which will be need to be communcated by other media and scientific analysis anyway. You can't have an internet device analyse a stool sample, or to take a biopsy, nor can it administer a remedy.
The NBN is a myth and is only going to be bthere for high speed information downloads wchih the average citizen doesn't need.The military and governements will need it for spying and administering orders. The country will be able to intersect information and disable virtual bombs with high speed internet. Our systems will not be vulnerable if we have high speed internet.
All this other stuff is absolute propaganda. The NBN is for fighting a future informations war and nothing else can justify it.
Don't believe the hype and read a couple of good books on information wars that you and i will be playing a opart in from our living rooms within about 30years or less.
Take the wikileaks scanario for example - possible a beta test run, or at least it will be viewed as our first information war that was not adequately defended as US and other Authorities did not have the speeds to net it and put it into quarantine. Had they have been able to infiltrate the Wiki organisation, they would have won, But infiltration is not legal and so only spying, intersection/roadblocking/rerouting/seizing and quarantining mobile virtual attacks will ever be the viable option to combat information wars.
That is what your NBN is for, and i know it for a fact. Similar Ping operations have been going on for around 15 years in the Middle East and Kabul and the Wikileaks terrorism connotation is just there to warm you all up to the fire you will be fuelling...that our kids will be fuelling.
