A decentralised internet would be the holy grail. Imagine a peer-to-peer mesh mobile network. Mobile phones are two-way radios with good range. Nothing stopping them talking directly to each other and proxying traffic over longer distances.
One of the challenges is the amount of signaling required to keep the whole network up to date with everyone's current location. My idea is that every residence and office has a phone that never moves and acts as a private home location server (HLS)/forwarding service for the entire household or business. Your ID is then a combination of the GPS coordinates and IMSI of that phone, plus your own unique ID on that residence's private HLS.
Hybrid hierarchical/ decentralized systems would be perfect, and if anyone could opt in for a higher up device in that hierarchy, a lot probably would. It would also solve the bitcoin problem, where so many people are communicating that any record making is slowed down.
A decentralised internet would be the holy grail. Imagine a peer-to-peer mesh mobile network. Mobile phones are two-way radios with good range. Nothing stopping them talking directly to each other and proxying traffic over longer distances.
One of the challenges is the amount of signaling required to keep the whole network up to date with everyone's current location. My idea is that every residence and office has a phone that never moves and acts as a private home location server (HLS)/forwarding service for the entire household or business. Your ID is then a combination of the GPS coordinates and IMSI of that phone, plus your own unique ID on that residence's private HLS.
Hybrid hierarchical/ decentralized systems would be perfect, and if anyone could opt in for a higher up device in that hierarchy, a lot probably would. It would also solve the bitcoin problem, where so many people are communicating that any record making is slowed down.