User:Average/Communications Freedom

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.