[Eug-lug] OT:the future irrelevancy of "war-driving"

[erock23175 at aol.com]

 I think that the ultimate solution to many of our wireless gripes and such is a mesh-network of totally independent wifi-signal receiver/propagators (sorry if I don't use the proper nomenclature but I am after all the n00b here so...bear with me). Solar powered with some sort of battery back-up for dark hours. I think the only thing that would interrupt the service would be an unexpectedly long period of dark (ie nuclear winter..the next ice age....total submersion underwater...you get the idea). If such events occur I doubt there would be many left to bother with the internet anyway. However, in the aftermath, (assuming we had the foresight to design them to deal with the elements) if enough of the devices could be recovered, setting up the next "internet" would take a lot less time. 

It sounds kind of communistic and such, but lets get real,? the internet IS NOT THE "PRODUCT"! Your access to the internet IS NOT THE "PRODUCT"! The "PRODUCT" is a good, or service you offer the PLANET VIA THE INTERNET!!! Limiting your access to the internet is a way of denying you the ability to offer your goods or services to the planet. In my mind the answer is find a way to offer "EVERYONE" free, fast, and secure access to the internet at the least expensive way possible. Honestly I think the state would have much more luck managing such a network than it does in providing health care. I think if we put as much brain-power into that little mission as we do on "how to make money on Ebay", day-trading, or war-profiteering, we could see the squaring of the average human IQ over the next century....what wonderful "toys" those brains will create eh? ("anyone up for solar-wind surfing?")

-E
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