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What's interesting to me is that we're in a constant war between the technologies used by governments to control their people and the technologies used by peopl
by dy 16y ago
What's interesting to me is that we're in a constant war between the technologies used by governments to control their people and the technologies used by people to uproot their governments. There's a post below about mesh networking, I can see in a few years cell phones being powerful enough to broadcast network over a large enough area that they'll be ad hoc networks without a central kill switch.
One thing I fear is that eventually we'll reach a point where a dictatorship will establish itself and be so cruel and effective that it'll represent a permanent power which will dictate until it's own will to govern expires. North Korea seems like a close enough approximation but with the weapons and technology of the modern world it doesn't take that much creativity for a psychopath to imagine a world where that can occur.
Perhaps it's time I re-read Cryptonomicon.
- jacquesm 16y ago> I can see in a few years cell phones being powerful enough to broadcast network over a large enough area that they'll be ad hoc networks without a central kill switch. Cell phones have actually lost power, not gained power over the last two decades. Likely they'll lose more power still as the push to increase battery life continues and coverage increases.
- mnutt 16y agoThat's true, but it all comes down to the use cases. With the awful AT&T coverage and carriers actively refusing to provide more bandwidth, wouldn't it be nice to have a phone that had WiMax? Power constraints are very real right now, but with growing bandwidth needs and none of the other variables changing very quickly, it's at least a possibility that someone could figure out how to put something like WiMax into a phone.
- davidw 16y ago> Power constraints are very real right now Because batteries don't scale according to Moore's law.