[P2P-F] looks essential 4 chokepoint

Mon Oct 17 21:44:18 CEST 2011

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Michel Bauwens
<michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
> http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/04/12/resilience-of-the-internet-interconnection-ecosystem/
>

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.

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