[Dataisland-developer] Social networking : on slashdot

[Vincent-Olivier A. <vi...@up...>]

/"Are telecom providers and ISPs going to continue to be necessary in 
the future? Why are we all paying subscriptions for communicating? What 
I want is a global extremely-high-speed ad-hoc wireless data & voice 
network, where the only entry cost is a mobile phone (or newtork card or 
whatever). Devices communicate peer to peer, or routed via other 
people's idle devices. Remember there is no subscriptions, so don't 
expect to piggy-back on someone's paid for DSL bandwidth. What are the 
technological barriers? What kind of protocols would you need? What 
hardware advances? How would you solve problems of geographic isolation? 
Are there theoretical, political or economic reasons it couldn't work?"/



http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/03/06/12/1933247.shtml?tid=137&tid=193