From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 18:15:18 MDT
Extropes,
Some ideas are obvious, but invisible until someone
points it out to you. The old, "Of course, why didn't
I think of that?!!" experience. (Nitrogen was first
liquefied in 1877, but the idea it made possible was
not published--The Prospect of Immortality--until
1962.)
Cell phones are small transmitters/receivers
(transceivers). Weak little buggers with limited
range. But pack them densely enough, and add a
zillion other devices similarly equipped--all things
wi-fi --and you get a mesh blanket of communication
capability. A capability free from telecom
domination.
Of course!
Well, maybe.
Making a mesh on the move
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4489999,00.html
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
Ray Charles
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