Silicon Valley to get WiFi Coverage

prostoalex writes "A high tech civic group led by Intel is soliciting a bid from ISPs to create a WiFi cloud around Silicon Valley. From the Reuters article: 'The Smart Valley group will solicit financial contributions to develop the plan to cover another 20 Silicon Valley cities. In all, the plan would stretch across four counties - Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz.'"

Comments

another step

[drDugan]

Wide, free access is another step in humankind's inevitable re-evaluation of what property means. Everywhere I look, things are becomeing more open and free. Freecycle, free wifi, free search, free software ...

when, as a society we unlock the food and shelter, and people start to have real choice in what they do with their time... thigs will start to get REALLY interesting.

Re:another step

[vertinox]

I can't wait for my free oil :-)

Well if ITER gets off their butts and gets the Tokamak reactor up and running they we can have the free power we want to convert stuff to hydrogen or biodisel.

Of course this might be 20-50 years before they get one made for public consumption, but one can only hope...

But like the grandparent says, everything can be free if the right technology is applied. Free markets demand it.

Energy, information, people, and markets want to be free. (We have no choice)

Re:another step

[drDugan]

why? with the rapid acceleration of idea tranfer globally, what is keeping us back?

we're already training the whole 9-16 age bracket on simple models of social interaction with game-based systems. this generation of people will grasp new models of interaction muchg faster than the aged rich today.

Re:How to avoid conflict with 1000s of existing ne

[kevin.fowler]

If they have a good sense of humor, they should name it "Linksys".