{"id":5738,"date":"2014-01-04T20:12:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T12:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T12:12:14","slug":"its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-seriously-and-not-just-for-the-reasons-you-think-wired-opinion-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/04\/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-seriously-and-not-just-for-the-reasons-you-think-wired-opinion-wired-com\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Time to Take Mesh Networks Seriously (And Not Just for the Reasons You Think) &#124; Wired Opinion &#124; Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the Real, Often Forgotten, Promise of Mesh Networks Is\u2026<br \/>\nYet beyond the benefits of costs and elasticity, little attention has been given to the real power of mesh networking: the social impact it could have on the way communities form and operate.<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s really revolutionary about mesh networking isn\u2019t the novel use of technology. It\u2019s the fact that it provides a means for people to self-organize into communities and share resources amongst themselves: Mesh networks are operated by the community, for the community. Especially because the internet has become essential to our everyday life.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/opinion\/2014\/01\/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-seriously-and-not-just-for-the-reasons-you-think\/?cid=16539534\">It&#8217;s Time to Take Mesh Networks Seriously (And Not Just for the Reasons You Think) | Wired Opinion | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the Real, Often Forgotten, Promise of Mesh Networks Is\u2026 Yet beyond the benefits of costs and elasticity, little attention has been given to the real power of mesh networking: the social impact it could have on the way communities form and operate. What\u2019s really revolutionary about mesh networking isn\u2019t the novel use of technology. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/04\/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-seriously-and-not-just-for-the-reasons-you-think-wired-opinion-wired-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#039;s Time to Take Mesh Networks Seriously (And Not Just for the Reasons You Think) &#124; Wired Opinion &#124; Wired.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}