Hello, this is Isaac Botkin. Welcome to another T-Rex talk podcast, audio exclusive, whatever we're calling

these things. And this one is late. I meant to record this last week and post it this Monday,

but I'm actually recording it on Monday, hopefully to post on Monday, but we'll see what else happens.

I'm actually glad that it's been delayed because the topic of this

particular podcast is the need for decentralized communications, which when I was

kind of writing up the outline for this and thinking through some stuff was originally going to

primarily be about the need for decentralized communications as regards to centralized communications

but something happened this week we had major major flooding in tennessee this weekend which also kind

of underscores this point now the need for communications networks is something that we

have talked about at t-Rex before.

There's a live stream about this from a few weeks ago or a month ago. And the main point of that

is that communications networks are not radio networks. They're not gadgets or equipment networks.

Communications networks are networks of people. That's the really important lesson and takeaway. You need to be

building these networks of people and then you figure out the equipment that you need to communicate.

It's really easy in our world to start thinking about radio equipment, radio communication is the

need for radio networks as opposed to the communications networks of who the people are and what

they need communicated to them.

But one of the things that I do want to talk about is the centralized nature of almost all

of the communications that we have today, which means two things.

Number one, it means that it is very fragile if that central part of the network gets

destroyed or damaged or limited in some way,

like often happens in natural disasters.

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