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It's not enough to have a bunch of ebooks on a drive and a pile of canned goods. You need to get the ebooks and food to people who need them. To that end, wit
by vorpalhex 5y ago
It's not enough to have a bunch of ebooks on a drive and a pile of canned goods.
You need to get the ebooks and food to people who need them.
To that end, with most everyone having a mobile device, a wifi hotspot where people can leave text messages and grab books is useful.
- armagon 5y agoThat actually makes a whole lot of sense -- might be the killer app; a bulletin board that works on your phone. Assuming people had enough power to charge their phones, and assuming the internet at large was unavailable, this would be brilliant.
- Jtsummers 5y ago"A bulletin board that works on your phone" is actually a decent summary of gossip protocol based p2p systems like Secure Scuttlebutt (https://scuttlebutt.nz https://scuttlebutt.nz). Data can be transferred when devices are in near enough proximity to each other (share a network, bluetooth, whatever). Messages are cryptographically signed (and possibly encrypted) so you could use this as a way of maintaining (albeit slowly) communications across a distance so long as there is still travel between communities.