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New Circuitry is Already Alive
=Organizations=
[http://buythissatellite.org  Buy This Satellite]


Even now, there is a network springing to life. A new network, A free network. We are challenging civilizational hierarchy by building an electromagnetic mesh to span the globe.
A group raising money to buy unused telecommunications satellites and re-purpose them to provide access to undeserved geographies.


In Buenos Aires and Santiago, in Baltimore and Berlin and Britain – in Iowa, and in India. In Ithaca, and Providence, and New Haven. Around the world, on six continents, our network springs to life.
[[Freifunk]]


Humanity has harnessed the power of the electromagnetic spectrum for the transmission of information at enormous rates. We have possessed this prowess for some time now as a civilization, but the moment approaches when this technology is controlled by the people themselves, rather than by corporations.
A Community Wireless group operating out of Germany, whose standards and routing protocols have gained worldwide popularity.


The Freenet is being developed as a an IPv6 interface for machines running diaspora*. We call this network the Mesh Interface for Network Devices. It will consist of a number of compact-form computers equipped with electromagnetic transceivers. We call these computers nodes. They are already being developed and deployed by organizations such as One Laptop Per Child
[[Village Telco]]


These nodes will communicate with one another using the Internet Engineering Task Force protocols labelled 802.11. The implementation of these protocols already establishes and strengthens communities around the globe. In juxtaposition, however, to the hierarchical topology of current Local Area Networks, we are engineering LAN technologies which utilize a mesh topology. That is to say that the nodes communicate with one another, rather than with some central router or hub. It is less a LAN, and more a digital village.
A group producing low-cost mesh hardware.


Initially, these villages will be connected to one another via the internet, using secure protocols and end-to-end encryption. Eventually, each village will maintain cooperatively its own facility to transmit and receive data in the UHF/VHF bands, implementing the suite of IETF protocols labelled 802.22. These protocols will provide for ubiquitous, global connectedness on a scale that was previously unimagined.
=Mesh networking on Android phones=


This is the project of the MIND - a world whose interconnectedness allows for truly universal education – a world united in common consciousness and common cause. There is freedom on the airwaves, now. We are blanketing the planet with an electromagnetic mesh. We have found the frequency of our salvation, the wavelength of our freedom.
Some folks in Australia have come up with a way to do mesh networking over Android phones, if they are close enough together. Their system provides a way to use VoIP over the mesh network, although the voice quality is poor.


[http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/01/researchers-enable-mesh-wifi-networking-for-android-smartphones.ars Description in ''Ars technica'']


    The MIND springs awake.
=PirateBox=
 
According to its creator, a professor at New York University,
 
<blockquote>
PirateBox is a self-contained mobile collaboration and file sharing device. Simply turn it on to transform any space into a free and open file sharing network.
</blockquote>
 
It consists of a Debian GNU/Linux computer with a Web server attached to a wireless router.  It has no Internet connection, so you can't use it for downloads from external sources -- it's only for sharing among the people who can access it directly.  No passwords, no logins, no authentication.  The creator claims that you can build it for under $100.
 
[http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox Screenshots, FAQ, etc.]
 
[http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY Detailed instructions for assembly and configuration]
 
=Related Ideas=
[[Net Neutrality]]
 
[[Mesh Networks]]
 
[[Cognitive Radio]]
 
[[802.11]]
 
[[802.22]]
 
[[Privacy]]
 
[[MIND]]
 
=Prominent Thinkers=
[[Yochai Benkler]]
 
[[Kosta Grammatis]]
 
=Recommended Reading=
[[New Circuitry is Already Alive]] by [[user:isaac| isaac]]

Latest revision as of 21:33, 31 January 2011

Organizations

Buy This Satellite

A group raising money to buy unused telecommunications satellites and re-purpose them to provide access to undeserved geographies.

Freifunk

A Community Wireless group operating out of Germany, whose standards and routing protocols have gained worldwide popularity.

Village Telco

A group producing low-cost mesh hardware.

Mesh networking on Android phones

Some folks in Australia have come up with a way to do mesh networking over Android phones, if they are close enough together. Their system provides a way to use VoIP over the mesh network, although the voice quality is poor.

Description in Ars technica

PirateBox

According to its creator, a professor at New York University,

PirateBox is a self-contained mobile collaboration and file sharing device. Simply turn it on to transform any space into a free and open file sharing network.

It consists of a Debian GNU/Linux computer with a Web server attached to a wireless router. It has no Internet connection, so you can't use it for downloads from external sources -- it's only for sharing among the people who can access it directly. No passwords, no logins, no authentication. The creator claims that you can build it for under $100.

Screenshots, FAQ, etc.

Detailed instructions for assembly and configuration

Related Ideas

Net Neutrality

Mesh Networks

Cognitive Radio

802.11

802.22

Privacy

MIND

Prominent Thinkers

Yochai Benkler

Kosta Grammatis

Recommended Reading

New Circuitry is Already Alive by isaac

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