VINT Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet, has heaped praise on the government's national broadband network but warned that it will be very difficult to predict the economic benefits of the $36 billion project until they appear.
"I continue to feel a great deal of envy because in the US our broadband infrastructure is nothing like what Australia has planned," he said during a visit to The Australian in Sydney.
"I consider this to be a stunning investment in infrastructure that in my view will have very long term benefit. Infrastructure is all about enabling things and I see Australia is trying to enable innovation (with this project).
