Interestingly, the TCP/UDP alternatives they're talking about (delay tolerant networks) are also very important on the other side of things, interplanetary networking[0].<p>Hard problems have a way of cropping up in lots of places...<p>[0] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet</a>
Great quote from the article, <i></i><i>"The internet as we know it in the industrialized world is a product of an abundant energy supply, a robust electricity infrastructure, and sustained economic growth. It cannot survive if these conditions change."</i><i></i><p>Sort of like sending Morse Code over a radio hooked to a 9 volt battery. Twenty words per minute seems slow until that's all you have.<p>The other important point to take away from the article is that most of humanity is in slow/no internet regions.
This is the place where all these communities meet every year - <a href="http://battlemesh.org/" rel="nofollow">http://battlemesh.org/</a>
Since when is WIFI considered low tech?<p>I think these definitions need a bit of a rehaul, flying baloons are much more low tech then WiFi antenna IMO.
Precious Lunga spoke at Business of Software on this topic, seems like the work of Econet Wireless seems to be trying to address this issue. Some interesting stats here: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/marklittlewood/bos2015-precious-lunga-how-can-we-use-existing-tech-to-make-a-difference-in-the-world" rel="nofollow">http://www.slideshare.net/marklittlewood/bos2015-precious-lu...</a><p>Additionally there is a whole raft of IoT enabled devices making this possible too - think the future is bright :)