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Fixing/replacing the physical (atoms) is harder than the digital (bits), but it's possible. The dream is something like HAM radio level autonomy/sovereignty, but most of our high bandwidth wireless tech that operates over long distances requires line of sight.
So if physical wires/optics are the problem, we'll need to incentivize high density citizen run wireless mesh, or have a tech breakthrough that makes things like roll-your-own cell towers affordable to you and me.
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Thanks for the reference, I'll try to push it on the top of my reading list ;-)
Concerning the baby and the bath water, I was actually referring to the physical infrastructure more than anything else. I would like to know if there's even just a remote possibility to have a different way to "do internet".
I remember some time ago there was a sort of thing that tried to make an internet with computer connected through a sort of mesh network, but I don't remember neither the name nor of it actually was tested in real life.
However, I fear the subject is more complex than I can digest with my background and time. Let's hope more prepared and efficient people get interested in this.