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Dave Hughes' Campaign To Connect 6 Billion Brains
polarfleece writes "The Asociated Press has a fine story about Dave Hughes, one of my personal heros. For those of you who may never have heard of him, he is THE pioneer in the use of wireless networking for mass connectivity. His main website is at wireless.oldcolo.com." An anonymous reader also point to the profile of Hughes accompanying the article.
Ah, the Internet of the 1970s! Takes me back to the cyberpunk heyday of writers like Gibson and Stephenson.
Hughes is like some weird combination between the cowboy hackers of Neuromancer and Count Zero, and the dude who was pushing the hive mind project in Cryptonomicon.
Any thoughts? Do you think that Gibson or Stephenson ran across Col. Dave Hughes, USA, Ret., in their research? Think the Cowboy Curser inspired any personalities in Cryptonomicon or SnowCrash? Neuromancer? Count Zero? Mona Lisa Overdrive?
What's your opinion?
One does have to wonder though if connecting previously sheltered cultures, like Sherpas who rarely leave their home area, or small tribes in South America, will encourage them to join the rest of the world. If I had no previous contact with the outside world's mass culture, one look at the internet would scare the living hell outta me. Slashdot alone would convince me all ousiders should be killed on sight.
Mod Points: Helping you keep your opinion to yourself.
If we could somehow distribute local WAP distribution points and everyone would have a common mode of connecting with reasonable transfer rates pretty much anywhere in the US, nay the world.
::hitting self in head repeatedly::
OH WAIT THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE 3G CELLULAR NETWORK!!!
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
That's such rubbish pop-psych you should be embarrassed. Most of the artists I know have very good computer skills.