Flying Cars

Another software commercial with a point:



The problem with large government tech projects (like RPWEB, or the NBN) is that it would require the government to bet on the future of a technology.  And, as the ad points out, the future is a moving target.

This task is hard enough for firms coordinated by markets. Twenty to thirty years ago, the predominant view of the future involved personal jet, rocket, and atomic power for everyone, not  a globe-spanning network of computers. For structural or cultural reasons,  governments are pathologically bad at making technology choices.