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Silicon Valley to get WiFi Coverage

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 27, 2006 @05:18AM from the nice-for-them dept.

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.'"

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another step by drDugan · 2006-01-27 05:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.