User:Average/Communications Freedom
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What is freedom without being able to communicate? Drone city. Mind Prison. A civilization of fleshbots -- like meat puppets, except they don't talk.
Laser-sighted modulation for low-cost long-distance (~5mi) communications to off-grid huts. Mesh-networking for filling in gaps of coverage in sparse areas. Even pirate radio (with software programmable transceivers) could be used to create a municipal network.
See this page for most of what you're probably looking for.