Hardware

New Circuitry is Already Alive

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

   The MIND springs awake.