While the high-tech approach pushes the costs and energy use of the internet higher and higher, the low-tech alternatives result in much cheaper and very energy efficient networks that combine well with renewable power production and are resistant to disruptions.
If we want the internet to keep working in circumstances where access to energy is more limited, we can learn important lessons from alternative network technologies. Best of all, there’s no need to wait for governments or companies to facilitate: we can build our own resilient communication infrastructure if we cooperate with one another. This is demonstrated by several community networks in Europe, of which the largest has more than 35,000 users already.
Rebloggin because; holy shit; this is really cool and if there were some way to implement this in the US to get out of the thumb of big telecom…
Rebloggin because, if Net Neutrality is murdered, we need to start getting onto this locally…
How to Build a Low-tech Internet
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