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And if one controls the technology which creates the mesh? ie, requires a back-door into every device?


Excellent point. Vintage networking hardware could start to become quite valuable.


Assuming it's still compatible with anything else at that point. Honestly, though? With cheap mass storage, we could end up going all the way down to sneakernet.

They really could do a lot more to control the internet. Not fully, of course. It can't ever be fully controlled. But they really could do a lot to put us into an age of digital prohibition.




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