Sneakernets

The Honda protocol:

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a kid on a moped with a backpack full of CDs.

I guess that’s a pocket full of flash drives these days, but whatevs.

From the Oxford Information Geographies project:

Ideally, I’d like to find robust ways of participating in the internet bidirectionally, in non-real-time, without assuming the internet is always plugged in and working.

For unidirectional stuff, see offline internet.

The Web as we know it is not especially well suited to this, so this might be a hard sell to Joe Suburbia, but I imagine not so bad for Indonesians with smartphones or others in the internet badlands, say, Reza Desa. In particular, I am interested in options that don’t only work for nerds. Your remote mountain village likely has no nerds in it yet; you want the internet to help make new nerds.