spectrum

dammit, and here's another one.

have you heard of the wireless space problem? there's a spectrum of airspace through which all kinds of things travel - tv, radio, internet - and the amount of space set aside for wireless internet has become way inadequate as smartphones and ipods and laptops have come to power. microsoft is looking for more space, and turning to the white space set aside between analog tv channels to keep old stations from interfering with each other.

that's all the real stuff. the story involves a religion based on the spectrum, and its possible sentience. i had an idea related to the eventual need to tap into the visible spectrum in order to transmit all the crap we feel the need to put on the internet (see this, this, and this (that's what's called a meta-joke)), that we'd start seeing wisps of internet followed by eventual eternal fog... yeah, there's a story buried in here somewhere.

what's that make? four stories now? five? someone loan me a cottage in the woods for two months, so i can go away with a smile and come back with a smile, a beard, and a stack of books for the world.