A decentralized networking technology originally built for battlefields and Burning Man is today being reimagined from the ground up.
Mesh networks—named for their fishnet-like connections—emerged over the past few decades from rigorous, mathematical research on keeping data flowing even when portions of a system fail. But the theory hasn’t always matched up to reality. Real-world mesh networks have proved vulnerable to shutdowns in some of the very settings, such as certain kinds of large crowds,…
