There's another example of bottom-up infrastructure construction in the barbed-wire telephone networks which sprung up in western America... and, of course, there's the whole FOSS movement.
If we trace the latter back through Unix and Bell Labs, both of these come together in the person of Alexander Graham Bell, though his vision of communications technology infrastructure was, of course, quintessentially top-down.
If we trace the latter back through Unix and Bell Labs, both of these come together in the person of Alexander Graham Bell, though his vision of communications technology infrastructure was, of course, quintessentially top-down.
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