Good observations about the need for the Internet to handle long-distances. I wrote on scuttlebutt that telecommunication channels could become multi-modal like

Good observations about the need for the Internet to handle long-distances. I wrote on scuttlebutt that telecommunication channels could become multi-modal like public transportation is often in Europe: https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25OryfD6hGpjiqwFkKyFnhVPZMPsZFgdFutEhzxycyolQ%3D.sha256 https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25OryfD6hGpjiqwFkKyFnhVPZMPsZF... Another way of bridging the gap in that white map is through data gossip: the person who leaves a village and comes back can bring data updates with them and share that with the village. Sneakernets in Cuba (as far as I know) work like that, but shouldn't be as fast as mesh gossip.