The elephant in the room of any discussion about the future of Internet is the mesh network. How can we bypass the faulty mega-ISP model , and network peer-to-peer (P2P) instead?
Satellites are usually mentioned as possible solutions. Facebook and SpaceX have talked about launching their own fleets to provide global Wi-Fi. But these projects wouldn’t provide real P2P networking – they’d still be third party, single-points-of-failure.
Projects like BitMesh , however, are laying the software […]