Notable quotes from the article:
andCommunication is no longer a matter of frequency, but of computation
The last one makes you think about how history could be very different, in the positive direction, if things are thought out in advance and planned well. But, oh well, we are 1st category, and it's all about money and control...Even a sliver of new unlicensed spectrum in the very low frequencies could therefore make an enormous difference. It could, for example, make possible a cheap alternative to cable and digital-subscriber line modems (for which roads have to be dug up and trees uprooted) in delivering high-speed internet access across “the last mile” to the consumer.
“Amazing things have been done with Wi-Fi in garbage spectrum,” says Tren Griffin, who is in charge of spectrum matters at Microsoft. “The pregnant question is: what if we took a tiny amount of good spectrum and repurposed it?” It might at last become feasible and economic to begin bridging the world's digital divide. If low-frequency spectrum became free for innovators, then business plans to bring connectivity to villages in India and China, as well as rural Montana, would soon follow. Lives in many places could one day be richer thanks to vibrations in the air.