How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)

In South Africa we've got a completely free, community driven and supported Wireless User Group comprising of ~2000 nodes.<p>Whilst it's certainly not the Internet I've seen a marked improvement and understanding in creating large, relatively free networks. (You still have to buy your own equipment.)<p>One can only hope that by 2025 the technology will have increased to such a point that it'll be powerful (no line of site required), cheap and abundant. (And in effect, uncontrollable by a single entity, corporation or organization.)<p>A bit more about the WUG: (<a href="http://ptawug.co.za" rel="nofollow">http://ptawug.co.za</a>)<p>They use standard 802.11g/n (5.8/2.4 GHz) Wi-Fi equipment. And mostly Mikrotik router hardware and software.<p>I'm just a user - So my information might be a bit wrong...

I saw Full Metal Jacket when I was 4 years old and I loved it. I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I laughed.<p>This scared the shit out of me.

"Why exactly is it bad for people to badmouth their governments or big companies online?"<p>Funny enough, there's a discussion in our local press these days about the "Press" considered to be a vector of insecurity to government/local agencies (e.g. they badmouth justice for being a mock-up).

Somehow, I don't see this happening; there's too much of implied control for this to be a realistic scenario.

Nice (but quite scary) article. Reminds me a lot of the 'if the internet were like cable TV/mobile phone pricing' image I saw a while ago: <a href="http://imgur.com/5RrWm.png" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/5RrWm.png</a>

Needs a think of the children argument to be more convincing.

<i>Setting up your RealIdentity is easy, as your computer (MacOS 15 or ChromeOS7 and higher) will automatically connect...</i><p>Hmmm...no mention of Microsoft. Does this mean I'll have to upgrade from ie6/xp before 2025?

Ok, that was depressing.

They hate our freedoms... Never forget.

<i>LOL...(it has also replaced Bless You as a reply to when someone sneezes)</i>

And what about the multitude of darknets with Petabyte/s of bandwidth?