Build real community locally. Open your mind to the unlimited possibilities of the universe, specifically as it applies to your latent psychic abilities and
learn and practice telepathy already.
In addition, you should strongly consider buying/building a bunch of
outdoor WiFi mesh routers and deploying them around your community using
solar power. The mesh networking protocol, developed by MIT for their "roofnet" mesh, ensures that connections can be made even if some nodes are down.
If you're this geeky, you could probably figure out how to host a server out of your house that can provide a
community wiki as the default page users see (like at hotels) when connecting to your free wifi mesh network, and get the free
Sahana disaster management platform installed and configured and get some trusted locals deputized ahead of time as Sahana users in case a disaster strikes your community that would benefit from centralized resource/response management. You should probably have at least FRS radios if not HAM and a few agreed-upon channels for routine and emergency communications traffic if you set up this kind of team.
The whole idea here is to take your communications off the grid, even the Internet itself. If a few of these solar wifi mesh nodes were hosted by people with diverse Internet connections, you'd have redundant pathways to the public Internet. If the Internet becomes unusable, you still have a community intranet based around an auto-loading Wiki page which you're hopefully backing up in nightly increments with free solutions such as
Bacula in case unstable people mess up the contributions of helpful people as with Wikipedia.
The community wireless mesh could also host a secure voice and video communications server using the free
Asterisk software on just about any old PC to provide secure community telephone and video broadcasting/conferencing service within your mesh coverage area. All your neighbors need is a PC with a modem and any regular telephone, and they can have an extension on the system just like in an office. Or use software phones and headsets to connect to the community Asterisk server from anywhere. When done over an OpenVPN-based encrypted VPN it becomes impractical for even the Ennesay to electronically wiretap these conversations.
You could even find some cheap WiFi webcams and power them off the same mesh node solar circuits to create your own counter-surveillance network so you know when and where it's safe to roam the streets amid police state actions. Hell, add a personal weather station... the possibilities are endless.
We're very fortunate to share like minds with thousands of brilliant and selfless software developers who volunteer their time to free open-source software projects such as the ones listed above to create in many cases the very best-of-breed software solutions for a wide range of human needs which are completely free, secure and infinitely extensible thanks to the availability of the source code. I think the global open-source movement is beginning to reach a critical mass of creative output which is going to help propel us into the next steps in human social or organizational evolution through decentralization, disintermediation and democratization of communications, security and resource management of every imagineable kind.
Basically, these geeks are the ultimate libertarians, intentionally yet humbly and quietly building people-owned systems to replace all corporate- or gov't-controlled or intel-infiltrated systems currently in place. It's efforts like these that give me hope that we will be able to comfortably transition the world's societies out of global capitalism and into whatever organizational superstructures our new reality is spawning with minimal suffering.
So get to work!
