Hello All,
I was reading "How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" by local
Oakland author Jenny Odell, an excellent book on how to reclaim your mind
from the commercialization of tech. In Chapter 6 "Restoring the Grounds for
Thought" sudo mesh is mentioned as an example of technology that can make
the concept of "place" and "context" important again. It's a tad
academic,
but I thought you might like to read your fame:
When I asked my friend Taeyoon Choi, cofounder of the School of Poetic
Computation in New York, about a network that would allow you to “listen to
a place,” he suggested local mesh networks like Oakland’s
PeoplesOpen.net.
The nonprofit Sudo Room, whose volunteers develop the mesh network,
describe it as a people-powered, “free-as-in-freedom alternative” to
centralized, corporate servers: “Imagine if the wifi router in your home
connected to the wifi routers in your neighbours’ homes and they again
connected to their neighbours to form a huge free wireless network spanning
the city! That’s exactly what a mesh network is, or at least what it can
be.”18
The volunteers add that mesh networks would be particularly resilient in
the event of a natural disaster or state censorship. Alongside instructions
for “building your own internet,” they provide a directory of other
community networks, like NYC Mesh, Philly Mesh, and Kansas City Freedom
Network. And PeoplesOpen.net’s mission statement seems to echo that of
Community Memory:
[W]e believe in the creation of local internets and locally-relevant
applications, the cultivation of community-owned telecommunications
networks in the interest of autonomy and grassroots community
collaboration, and ultimately, in owning the means of production by which
we communicate.19
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽
http://notconfusing.com/