Who knew Occupy Wall Street was actually an insane tech genius breeding ground that might help keep us emailing in peace forever and ever? You! If you watch this.
It's a half-hour mini-documentary, so if you don’t have the 30 minutes to watch it all, skip to the meaty goodness that is the answers to these three questions:
- What’s a decentralized Internet look like? At 3:12.
- Why is decentralizing the Internet a thought worth thinking? 12:38-14:16.
- How can we do it? 15:48-17:34.
Vice has a documentary platform called Motherboard, and I found this documentary there after I read an article on the Daily Dot about a new app called FireChat that is helping people all over the world form mesh networks. And I was like, “I MUST KNOW MORE.”
If you’re thinking, "WHOA! Complicated much?" You can, and that would be OK, but it’s not complicated — this whole shebang is more like a fun science project. Move over, baking-soda volcano!
What’s a mesh network? This term basically means a network that can’t be censored by the government or a big ol’ business. Comes in handy in places where dictators do actually turn off the Internet sometimes. (Yes! That’s a thing that can happen!)
For more on the nice, genius bearded guy from Missouri, here’s a Q&A he did, and here’s the Twitter feed of his organization, the Free Network Foundation.
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