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Mags Meanderings: From
Som Tam To Mushy Peas
shining a light
Just when you think you have finally found the ideal
internet solution to meet your needs, be it wifi access,
download speeds, or the cloud, something else new
sneaks over the internet horizon. And that horizon has
a bad habit of creeping up much more quickly than you
would have believed possible. If in fact you would have
believed it possible at all.
Which to me is certainly the case with ‘LiFi’, possibly
the next big thing in internet access. LiFi apparently is
a way to use LED light sources to transmit data instead
of WiFi zones. Although not perfected yet, time flies,
and no doubt it could be available sooner than we think.
In some places that is. If you already struggle to find wifi
zones, decent speeds or even the home screen in rural
areas of Thailand it could be a long wait there for LiFi.
First the country would need to totally change its’ lighting
habits, but can you really imagine Thailand without all
those different coloured neon tubes dangling around
singing bars, hanging from trees, and illuminating the
markets? It just wouldn’t be the same.
Still, even if you do wish for better internet provision,
spare a thought for the people of Cuba, which is one
of the worlds’ worst countries for internet access. So
much so that their new wifi hotspots are reported to be
causing a sensation, even though they aren’t free to use.
Since July over 35 hotspots have been provided there,
with more to follow in the country where, according
to UN information, only 3.4 percent of homes have an
internet connection. So few that Cubas’ one and only
undersea fibre optic cable connection - from Venezuela
- can cope with demand.
But despite a tempting offer from the States in the
form of an exemption to their trade embargo on sales
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of US telecoms equipment to Cuba, its’ government
is proceeding with caution as far as the internet is
concerned. Afraid that the country would be infiltrated
with undesirable American ideology in return for such
freebies is a ‘big brother’ scenario which the government
doesn’t much care for.
Can you really blame them?
There is no ‘on this day’ this week. Instead an ‘on two
days ago’ in history. October 21st 1904 was the date on
which an incident at sea almost led to war between
Britain and Russia.
A Hull fishing fleet of 45 trawlers had cast their nets
off the Dogger Bank. It was a dark foggy night, and the
crews were all busy when they encountered a fleet of
what they thought were British warships. Suddenly
the trawlers were flooded by lights from the warships,
which immediately opened fire on them. With their nets
down the trawlers were unable to escape, and endured
a barrage of fire for 20 minutes from what were actually
Russian ships.
At that time Russia and Japan were at war with each
other, and the Russian ships should never have attacked
what was clearly a fishing fleet, its’ nets and vessel shapes
clearly visible in the glare of lights from the warships.
Just two of the 45 trawlers made it back to Hull, flags
flying at half mast, and a major diplomatic incident
ensued. Over 100 years later we can still imagine what
that feels like.
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