Terry Brooks, Shannara series (wiki/goodreads)

It’s a rather extensive fantasy series and covers a prolific amount of time instead of focusing on a few characters and events (over 40 books and thousands of years basically).

ok I would never use one and think it’s a horrible addition to the world (unless economic stability was achieved for the average citizen and a form of UBI was implemented with all social safety nets securely codified into laws), but…

if something delivering my food showed up covered in broken glass and was all banged up I would have to wonder what apocalyptic-style pixar movie did this little one have to go through to humbly get my food to me. I would take it in and clean it up before I set it on it’s way again out into the wild.

I’m guilty of this when using a web browser, I’ll scroll down a page and open relevant posts into new tabs until I’ve accrued several. Sometimes I don’t get to them for quite a while so if I upvote it’s surprising how high the number jumps until I realize it’s sat there for half a day.

I try to refresh when commenting because 9/10 times someone else has already commented the same thing since the internet is dead but sometimes I forget.

should be a huge impact

I see what you did there.

for those who don’t want to visit reddit, archive.org, or imgur (and for posterity sake)

Imagine local libraries and post offices pushing this technology to get around ISP’s grips on local infrastructure. Helps during emergency events, local organization, and could even put e-books available from the library. Post office’s make sense because of their rural locations extending the nodes and brings them into the 21st century delivering physical and digital mail.

edit: would also love to get notifications from local government this way instead of having to check facebook or whatever mainstream site that I need to register with just to view.

If you think about it, for the past hundreds of thousands of years we’ve been regionally locked in our areas so variety is a loose term.