Compared to the previous telephone and broadcast media infrastructure, the Internet looks impressively decentralized. Compared to what's coming next, it doesn't.
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The bitch is video calls: one to one realtime vs. many to one static content. Many to one static content is cachable - whoever downloads it first in a region resells it to everybody else. You find the hash of what you want (cheap indexes) then auction-price a copy. AI gets good.
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Direct economic incentives to guess what people want and pull it before they know they want it. It's the kind of thing computers get really, really good at. Even a post-fibre world may still work. Except video calls. Even YouTube still works because of human herd behaviours.
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It's also a whole different show when you have a store-and-forward architecture over mesh. USENET was superbly usable on zero bandwidth because it worked hard to always keep the pipes full - downtime was used to precache content people wanted. Lots of room.
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Ah. Interesting. I'll have to watch. 5G is pretty "meshy" - thousands of small masts instead of big 4G cell towers. And phones have very good spectrum allocations. Makes me wonder what is possible: towers have really big, really good antennas. Phone to phone may not be much range
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