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Fully distributed wireless mesh network would be the evolutive step, but as Big Telecomm controls not only the grid but also the things manufacturers are urged to make, openly wireless-to-wireless cards may take a while to emerge.

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Is this like the app the arabs used during the arab spring, where nations cut off internet, so they used an app to share info using each other as a network? I think there's also a radio-wave version of this, isn't there?

Must be something of the sort. It's hard to have internet when the ISP decides to turn off the main nexus, so that is my assumption but I have not asked anyone from that conflict about the logistics so true intel on it would have to wait. Radio-wave version... like a plug-and-play hub? It would be really good to have this for a) remote areas, b) emergency times, c) social reform

Ok, so I have watched 2 of his videos and understand what he's explaining, but what I don't understand is where the data is supposed to be stored. (I also can't think of any ways for data to be stored except in big banks (hosting) like it is now - Can you think of any?

I get that he's proposing all devices can access the web by accessing each other (each device a port), but where are the websites located then? Where are the videos stored?

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