(Google wants to) Bring wireless Internet to everyone, everywhere.

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[biggerten]

I expect your call sign from the federal pen will begin with the letters “KY”.

[3AngelaD]

Yes, we are still paying taxes on our phone bills for Al Gore’s Universal Service Fund, long after service became universal. Once a tax like this is imposed, it never goes away.

[Omedalus]

I foresee a second Internet whose backbone would be peer-to-peer wireless routers, with everybody's routers connecting to other routers in the vicinity, without any connection to the World Wide Web. A truly open source web, over which governments could have no control.

Hey, that's what my company builds! Funny thing about peer-to-peer routing that liberates people from their ISP's... There's almost no money to be made from it. Go figure. :)

Seriously, though, this is exactly what my company is working on. Drop me a line if you want more info.

[JRandomFreeper]

That DID make me laugh out loud and scare the catz.

/johnny

[throwback]

Good point. I’m just wondering if Chinese dissidents can get anybody to sign the petitions on their web site. Oh, probably not, since nobody in China can find it. Even with all this new bandwidth, I imagine you’d still have search engines serving as the gatekeepers that could be politically influenced.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I don't own stock in Google. I just happen to hope that this thing works out.

Please forgive me, your Most High Excellency.

[throwback]

Neither, do I...d_mn!

I go by “Most High Loser” actually.