Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 06:41:14PM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:

> Of course, most of this discussion revolves around one word: "is". If you
> said "the Internet _can be seen_ as a tree", few would disagree with you,
> especially if you allowed for the fact that that tree is continuously
> changing its shape.  But "the Internet _is_ a tree"?  That's simply an
> error.

Do I have some 6 connections to my direct neighbours? Like the guy next door,
who's on DSL as well?

Geographic routing is just that.

Once again, you're too caught up in current technology to understand what the
fuck I'm talking about. It doesn't matter on the long run.

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