home is where the wifi connects automatically
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#tag rambles #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #proud citizen of The Future #our home and cherished land #home of the brave #*finally* managed to hunt down this post #(or maybe an identical text post‚ who knows) #didn’t manage to find any copy I’d have *originally* seen but hopefully this random person won’t mind #anyway #I was thinking about this post again while researching the Wi-Fi access on local public transit #(answer: most routes don’t have Wi-Fi and the exceptions are not routes that I am likely to use much) #(buses aren’t yet homes) #home is every public hotspot in town #home is every hotspot run by the county government (they all have the same name) #home is the grocery stores we go to in New York to stock up on cheaper and/or tastier American food #home is that one motel we always stop at for the night on the way to Massachusetts #home is a couple of hotel chains with Massachusetts branches we’ve stayed at over the years #home is every shopping district I’ve ever mapped #I like this post #I’m not a citizen of the world but I am a citizen of every place I’ve ever gotten to know #(admittedly if you restrict to places where my *laptop* connects to Wi-Fi automatically it’s a much smaller list) #(possibly just my house: I don’t think I’ve stayed at any hotels with this laptop and–unlike my phone– #laptops don’t inherit Wi-Fi settings from their predecessors) #(but I like the smartphone interpretation better) #((P.S. interestingly‚ I was unable to reblog this post on my first attempt because my house’s Wi-Fi glitched))
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