but it's not as though we haven't had the ability to communicate wirelessly across large distances for many decades. It's possible to communicate, but the q

but it's not as though we haven't had the ability to communicate wirelessly across large distances for many decades. It's possible to communicate, but the question is of bandwidth. AMPRnet[1] has existed since 1970, after all, it owns the class A 44 netblock, but you're not going to be watching Youtube at 9600 baud. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet