On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/04/12/resilience-of-the-internet-int...
After reading people like Dave Pollard who see the catabolic collapse of the Internet's fiber optic backbone and servers as a given (because of Peak Oil), I wonder whether the ultimate Freenet vision of a Web based on satellite dishes and relay towers is an answer to this. An Internet of point-to-point communication via satellites, replacing the fiber optic net, would be the same kind of ephemeralization Fuller observed with satellites replacing the worldwide network of underwater cables. Not only would the total amount of physical infrastructure fall by several orders of magnitude, but it would be modular and scalable so that the collapse of one part of the network would leave everything else functional. Even if all the satellites went down, tens of thousands of community freenets could persist on a local meshwork basis, perhaps with overlapping coverage making larger area freenets possible. -- Kevin Carson Research Associate, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Super-Empowered Individuals http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html