Connecting a stronger Australia - Speech to Aura Network's Perth-Sydney launch

Connecting a stronger Australia - Speech to Aura Network's Perth-Sydney launch Suzana Cameron Wed, 07/10/2026 - 14:55 Acknowledgements omitted The American tech journalist Andrew Blum tells the story of the moment he became interested in the physical infrastructure of the internet. Andrew was working away at home one day when an ominous message appeared on his screen. One we all know and dread: “The internet is not connected”. Andrew called his internet provider and they sent out a technician. Who followed the cabling to the backyard and saw a squirrel running across it. “That’s your problem” they said. The squirrel had chewed through the cable. This got Blum thinking. The internet is a “transcendent idea”. A “set of protocols that has changed everything” about our lives. It has changed how we work, and how we interact. It has transformed economies. It has even inspired revolutions. “It was unequivocally not” Blum figured, “something a squirrel could chew on.” For most of us, it is surprisingly difficult to imagine the physicality of the internet. Some might picture a cloud. Others might picture an amorphous blob. It is a famously intangible thing. And yet today we are reminded tha

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