Editing Freenet Manifesto (section)

== Stage 4: A Backbone of our Own ==
Stage 4 is when the dream of true co-ownership becomes a reality.
We are already starting in on what needs to be done here, because it's
a pretty tall order, and will take some time. (You gotta do what you
gotta do). In Stage 4, we replace investor-owned fiber backbones
with user-owned backbones.  

This won't come cheap, but freedom is never free. It will take time,
attention, energy, and materials. Community owned fiber networks, funded
by real-estate loans from member-owned credit unions can be built. Some
creative sofware developers in a city can develop an open-source precision
farming system, and provide support and maintenance, in exchange for having
some of those farmers using it to run a tiling machine plow across the 
prairies, burying 100 gigabit capable fiber bundles from Denver to Chicago.
 
Satellite dishes or TV-Band towers could replace the pipes that
used to come from the ISP, and their connectivity could be distributed
throughout every digital village. The only cost that anyone would ever
have to pay for network access would be the cost of a mesh node (could
be integrated into a PC, or shareable stand alone). Not everyone will
be able to afford a node, which is why the roadmap doesn't end with