Re:You're on it baby.. (Score 1)

I think the point of frustration is that a majority of the Internet infrastructure is reliant on the phone companies. The Internet was intended to survive large chunks of networks becoming inoperable and still be able to route data to the intended client. This may have been true then at its inception but I think today that the data bandwidth capacity and demand is so great that if critical access points went down, I think the smaller networks would die from the demand. The type of data being transmitted is alot more diverse too such that re-routing could be an extreme headache for network admins. Enabling the Internet to be truly decentralized from a physical layer point of view I think is the next challenge. We are seeing the great opportunity that Wifi has given us for digital communication ubiquity. If we could gear this concept towards how data is routed, it may also liberate us from the anti-competitive/consumer nature of the phone companies and the monopoly on landlines.