With cheap flash, we could do a lot of high-latency high-bandwidth data transport with just existing movements.
We could eliminate telecoms overnight but we just don’t have the organization to do it. Like, every house used to have a VHF/UHF receiving tower on it.
But if you act like an exit node, you could be screwed if you live in a place where an IP is enough to be found guilty and nobody runs a public wifi. But you can always tunnel your outside traffic out over TOR.
Imagine wanting to move data from city A to city B, so they'd decide to do a Tinder match of a girl from City B to this guy from City A, so he'd visit her a lot and be the data conduit...
And few good opportunities for caching either.
Would be cool to have a seamless system where you put in your Netflix request and a couple days later, the shows arrive because the aircraft has a Pi loaded with SD cards on it and boots at ground level.
This is what netflix used to do.