Yup, and we keep doing the same things over and over. Like BT being ready for fibre rollout, having invented half the tech, and being required to sell it off to

Yup, and we keep doing the same things over and over. Like BT being ready for fibre rollout, having invented half the tech, and being required to sell it off to S Korea around 1990. Supposedly so they weren't "unfair" competition to Blueyonder cable TV. Somewhere through the 60s or 70s we just about completely lost the ability to do national projects, and joined up thinking.