Isn't free communication as important as free energy?

[exxcomm0n]

Hello everyone,

With the latest turn of events in my country (USA) and the behavior of other markets throughout the world, I was wondering what might happen to internet communications should partial or full collapse of world monetary concerns.

Right now this very communication method we're presently using (internet) to share news and information is something that nationalization of communications in any country could deprive us of in the future.

This being the case, I was wondering if an alternate computer networking medium might be explored to make sure that the actions of one country, or several, could not bar the communication we presently enjoy for work, play, and education.

The idea that has intrigued me over the last 6 months is based on a technology of Nikola Tesla in ground based wireless radio transmission. If such a technology were available to everyone and the cost of an internet connection was driving a stake into the ground, I'd HOPE that it would enhance (at the very least) the internet we all know right now and make sure that political agendas would not be able to deprive us of the internet that brings our world closer together through communication.

Has anyone else considered this to be a possible series of events and wondered what alternate technologies might be able to at least augment, if not replace the present wired means we're using now?

I would like to propose that investigation into free communication is as important (if not more so) as free energy and see if others do as well to look into the possibility of creating a new network not dependent on the wire resources of businesses.

While you may think this alarmist thinking, I'd like to ask that you consider it seriously and think about what methods of replacement could be used to supplement the present internet structure we presently use.

This type of "free communication" is too important to loose!

If you have an idea of what Tesla was proposing, or have an idea of your own, please start a thread about it and open source the ideas so they can be tested and implemented ASAP.

Please consider this and offer your ideas to the community as the quest for "free energy" will lose a lot of momentum if we can't talk as easily as we do now.

[b0rg13]

..it should be more important.

[professor]

Lets all make our Radio Amateur license and go back in time to where it all started it wont be the same but it is better than nothing.
professor

[hoptoad]

..it should be more important.

Indeed, it is (IMHO) more important. Uncensored communication is a foundation corner stone for learning new knowledge and maintaining freedom!  ... KneeDeep

[exxcomm0n]

Lets all make our Radio Amateur license and go back in time to where it all started it wont be the same but it is better than nothing.
professor

See? There's a small problem there.

Ham radio operators are a very important resource in case of national emergency and have done great things in those times of emergency, so much so that they are given the opportunity of getting special vehicle license plates and need to be licensed to broadcast by the FCC.

If things were to turn in a bad way where communication methods outside of approved ones would be stopped, registration makes it fairly easy to stop this long range method (ham radio).

Data sending over ham wavelengths is possible but very slow and prone to error depending on distance.
I actually was wondering if someone had any information about Nikola's claim of much faster wireless transmission via ground wave.

Then it would be a matter of making transceiver schematics available and I bet Hams (radio operators) would be building it themselves (as well as others since it is a newly discovered open wavelength hopefully).

This is very oversimplified, but I was just wondering if others had thought about the subject.
I may not read all the threads here or follow all the links in the ones I do, but I do like some of the content provided by members and would miss it sorely should it become unavailable.

The web is a great resource for education, insights, and views about important topics that I might otherwise not have available to me and I would miss that too.