I know that I promised to keep the content of this blog low brow but…

The new advert for Bulldog broadband implies that the only reason that we have a slow internet connection is that some bloke in a office somewhere does not want to turn the speed of the internet up. A group of people shouting “open the gate” makes him change his mind, and we have progress.

I have a problem with this, on one hand I don’t believe in Whig historiography, not everything gets better with time, but on the other hand I don’t think that the only thing keeping previously discovered advances/theories becoming the dominant “paradigm” is a lack of complaining.