Neil Pound Pound argues that innovation is as much the province of users as it is of engineers and technologists. He then wonders why the UK public sector is not more adventurous in setting visionary goals to force the pace of innovation in the IT industry enabling more creative delivery of some public services. 

Cheap bandwidth, 100Mbps please! I have a media centre, a desktop, two laptops and various other toys all connected via wireless or fixed Ethernet to my broadband 20Mbps DSL, with 3G backup provided by a smart phone acting as a hotspot, and I am even thinking about getting a femtocell. All my devices are constantly on, consuming music, video and movies, increasingly in HD, and I consume most of my content using streaming sources now. Read more...