If 2 friends (neighbors) connected their houses wirelessly they would still need an ISP to connect to the real wired internet. If those 2 friends hooked up the neighbors on either side of them, then they hooked up their neighbors, then city blocks hooked to city blocks, then towns to towns, then counties to counties, states to states and so on and so on using satellites????? Eventually (big dream here, what the question really asks?) you would not need ISP's to provide bandwidth for the "wired world". What you would really need is an organization to hand out IP addresses and maybe the hardest part, to enforce the use of those IPs. Preferably a non-profit, non-political outfit unlike what we have today. (remember, its 10 years down the road and we're dreaming) I can see a real high potential for abuse here.
If "everybody" (your desktop, laptop, Sega, toaster, etc) went wireless (possible in 10 years?) this could really be a question needing answered somewhere down the road.
I've run some calculations on all this myself & am now making the formula available to all, it is platform non-dependent & is easily programed into even a spreadsheet. Here it is:
Casino-21 Project + distributed.net + GIMPS + The Federal Deficit Counter + Slashdot + World Resources Destructo-meter + The Salvation Army + d.net's OGR project + NASA + SETI@home + 1 = fortytwo
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If 2 friends (neighbors) connected their houses wirelessly they would still need an ISP to connect to the real wired internet. If those 2 friends hooked up the neighbors on either side of them, then they hooked up their neighbors, then city blocks hooked to city blocks, then towns to towns, then counties to counties, states to states and so on and so on using satellites????? Eventually (big dream here, what the question really asks?) you would not need ISP's to provide bandwidth for the "wired world". What you would really need is an organization to hand out IP addresses and maybe the hardest part, to enforce the use of those IPs. Preferably a non-profit, non-political outfit unlike what we have today. (remember, its 10 years down the road and we're dreaming) I can see a real high potential for abuse here.
If "everybody" (your desktop, laptop, Sega, toaster, etc) went wireless (possible in 10 years?) this could really be a question needing answered somewhere down the road.
I've run some calculations on all this myself & am now making the formula available to all, it is platform non-dependent & is easily programed into even a spreadsheet. Here it is:
Casino-21 Project + distributed.net + GIMPS + The Federal Deficit Counter + Slashdot + World Resources Destructo-meter + The Salvation Army + d.net's OGR project + NASA + SETI@home + 1 = fortytwo