We are influential. We are changing the face of the world.
If you are reading this, you or someone you know has recently contributed to the most epic machine ever built by humankind.
In fact, here's a rough calculation of it's stats:
- 55 trillion links.
- Over one billion microprocessors.
- 2 million e-mails a second.
- 1 million instant messages a second.
- 8 terabytes a second of traffic.
- 255 exabytes of storage.
- 2 billion location nodes activated.
- 5% of global electricity.
Now, what if there was a way for this to exist without anyone controlling the network or the websites we browse?
What
if, I told you that you could use a similar technology to bittorrent to distribute websites without of servers any sort?
What if I told you, that
we could could own the physical network.
No more Comcast, AT&T, AOL, or closed entities controlling our information.
There exists a technology called, wireless mesh (802.11s).
The mesh, could make all this possible.
We can use the technology to make our power and communications autonomous, anonymous, ubiquitous, and most importantly, free.
Right now, mesh can't beat fiber optics with it's 5gbps speed.
However, an opportunistic MIMO mesh network can get over 100mbps over the air with ~90% bandwidth efficiency over multiple hops, with the ability to reconfigure each device in response to outage in under 50ms.
Each mesh node in the network adds useful redundancy to the network and makes it resilient to failure.
The best part is, mesh can be deployed anywhere and everywhere at little to no cost whatsoever.
We can combine this with:
- The current internet, to make it interoperable.
- SSL, to make it secure.
- GPRS, to make it go the last mile.
- Solar & wind energy, to make it robust.
- VOIP, to make a true distributed telephone network.
- P2P, to make a distributed website hosting network.
All this, powered by open source software, firmware, and hardware, would allow us to make amazing advancements in just about every aspect of our lives.
Imagine the possibilities, a unified internet built by and for the people.
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