The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Introducing MondoNet: The censor-proof, unsurveillable network Aram Sinnreich A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at TEDxUSC, in which I laid out the basic argument for MondoNet, a new project I’m working on with a few of my grad students at Rutgers. My basic point is that, despite the many amazing cultural, economic and political uses …
Technology, politics, and balance by jonl When Mitch Ratcliffe and I published Extreme Democracy in 2005, the question came up whether the discussion of politics and social technology was technoutopian. Without getting into the specifics of the book (which included diverse articles, some more positive than others about the potential role of what we now …
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From BSA listserve: Excellent article on integration of 3G, LTE, Wifi and land lines i.e.- 5G networking. The only thing missing is this article is the 5th “G” – green networking. With so much overlapping coverage from the different wireless and wired nodes you don’t need five nines reliability for each node. Individual nodes can …
Google Memo Reveals Importance of Android Location Database Just how important is location-based data to Google? Just how important is it for the sun to rise each morning? Same deal. This question comes in the wake of eyes turning toward mobile handsets—specifically, Apple’s iPhone and smartphones based on Google’s Android OS—for the information they collect …
There is plenty of radio spectrum laying fallow everywhere for many reasons. One principal reason is regulatory capture by communications oligopolies/monopolies around the world (artificial scarcity), which leads to a lack of investment in alternative (competitive) infrastructure. This implies there is also vendor capture. What has changed just over the past five years is the …
Below from a team at Rutgers University focused on the same objectives as Next Net, but more structured. Story about them: Beyond the Internet: MondoNet, a global wireless mesh network By Stuart Corner iwire, Friday, 29 April 2011 16:07 A team from Rutgers University is trying tocreate the next generation version of the Internet, dubbed …
Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement Call To Action by Peter Eckersley If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they’re getting harder to find. Stories like the one over the weekend …
