Comments on: Douglas Rushkoff calls for new ‘true’ internet https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/douglas-rushkoff-calls-for-new-true-internet/2011/01/11 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:37:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Sepp Hasslberger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/douglas-rushkoff-calls-for-new-true-internet/2011/01/11/comment-page-1#comment-464032 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:37:08 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=12952#comment-464032 Building a new (part of) the internet starting from “the last square mile”, i.e. directly linking up end users who THEN collectively can link into the internet as-we-know-it, makes very much sense.

Most of the traffic will be local – it does not have to even get out of the “last square mile” network. Only some of it needs to go to other places and it can do so through dedicated connections that are shared by a large group of users. Costs will go down, and local affairs will receive a boost.

Someone is proposing to do just that, by forming cooperatives of internet users who first of all link up among themselves, and then link to the larger internet as a group, as a local network that is really independent of the net and can – in a pinch – function even without the international connections.

Check it out here:

http://www.theconnective.net/

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