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A content “delivery” network running on human movements. Now that’d be an interesting routing problem.

• bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  Hah. Well, humans have easily predictable movement patterns right? Home, work, grocery store. 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...
  • debo_ 5y ago
    This is a terrific idea for a short story.
    • fapjacks 5y ago
      I think "unwitting mule" is something been happening for thousands of years, just with different tools.
• Scoundreller 5y ago
  Not just human movements, but any movements. In Northern Canada, we have tons of fly-in communities that exclusively use satellite internet. 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.
  • ByteJockey 5y ago
    They'd just mail you dvds instead. This is what netflix used to do.
    • crtasm 5y ago
      They still do: https://dvd.netflix.com/ https://dvd.netflix.com/
      • Scoundreller 5y ago
        In USA.