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Spimes and meshes in the city of the future

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Fri, 2012-08-03 07:18
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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
Spimes and meshes in the city of the future
A talk by Charles Stross, filled with details that qare old hat in EP: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/08/how-low-power-can-yo...
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Fri, 2012-08-03 11:30
Anarhista Anarhista's picture
Back of an envelope
Very well said and I really have little more to say. I truly enjoyed his vision of future cities without (real) signs that look (to unaugmented eye) like 19 century streets where everyone follow (apparently) no rules and drive even on wrong side of streets!
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Fri, 2012-08-03 17:17
Prophet710 Prophet710's picture
With devices like this (given
With devices like this (given of course that I browsed only through the first few paragraphs of the lecture), could we find some way to power them with body heat or perpetual motion?
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Fri, 2012-08-03 18:55
Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
Prophet710 wrote:With devices
Prophet710 wrote:
With devices like this (given of course that I browsed only through the first few paragraphs of the lecture), could we find some way to power them with body heat or perpetual motion?
Perpetual motion doesn't exist. Body heat would work, but Stross makes a neat analysis of using sunlight and streetlight. The whole thing is worth reading.
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Wed, 2012-08-08 14:29
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
Arenamontanus wrote:Perpetual
Arenamontanus wrote:
Perpetual motion doesn't exist. Body heat would work, but Stross makes a neat analysis of using sunlight and streetlight. The whole thing is worth reading.
Some of our experiments at Project Byzantium are drawing heavily from most useful practices from the amateur radio emergency communications community. One would be surprised what one can run a netbook off of...
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Wed, 2012-08-08 14:45
Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
I think his vision would make
I think his vision would make a perfect Byzantium environment. Sure, those street nodes might be placed there by The Man, but others can just as easily strew nodes that act as a darknet. Still haven't gotten around to turn my unused computer into a Byzantium install, should try that when I get the time.
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Wed, 2012-08-08 16:10
Decivre Decivre's picture
The Doctor wrote:Some of our
The Doctor wrote:
Some of our experiments at Project Byzantium are drawing heavily from most useful practices from the amateur radio emergency communications community. One would be surprised what one can run a netbook off of...
If you guys are running computers of an emergency radio handcrank, you are either insane (if it's inefficient) or geniuses (if it's more efficient than we think it would be).
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Fri, 2012-08-24 15:00
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
Arenamontanus wrote:I think
Arenamontanus wrote:
I think his vision would make a perfect Byzantium environment. Sure, those street nodes might be placed there by The Man, but others can just as easily strew nodes that act as a darknet.
Precisely. And practical research into darkthrow computing is really taking off, now that the RaspberryPi is more readily available.
Arenamontanus wrote:
Still haven't gotten around to turn my unused computer into a Byzantium install, should try that when I get the time.
When you do, please let us know so we know if there are any bugs to fix. :)
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Fri, 2012-08-24 15:01
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
Decivre wrote:If you guys are
Decivre wrote:
If you guys are running computers of an emergency radio handcrank, you are either insane (if it's inefficient) or geniuses (if it's more efficient than we think it would be).
As sad as it may be, the hand-cranked generator that the One Laptop Per Child project discarded early on is pretty nifty, and would have been really taken off had they not given up on it. I wish we had more of them laying around.
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