Other parts of West Germany also sport lower population density (Lower Saxony in the North, Bavaria in the South).
It is absolutely astonishing how strongly human behavior (industry and metropolitan areas) influences local environmental conditions. I guess most cities may (be forced to) change radically.
There is something peculiar on the map in the article that caught my eye:
The formerly split country of Germany is also sharply split on the map! The western part (BRD/FRG) has significantly more hot humid days than the eastern part (former DDR/GDR). The colored area edge almost exactly matches the border.
History shows that individuals and groups equipped with the mindset of accumulating wealth and power will not yield their "progress".
This means society may tend to fall back to authoritarian systems like feudalism, when put under increasing external pressure.
The struggles and lack of coordination caused by this failure to act as a collective with modern technology present will lead to a fast and indiscriminate decline of the worlds population, I think.
I have tried to understand the reason for this design limitation (no easy efficient peer to peer on phones) for a long time now.
I have come to the conclusion that the inability to communicate is not a fail but intended.
It seems like security and business interests are standing in the way, not primarily technical hurdles.
Mesh networking and service discovery are issues where technical solutions exist. But their application is slowed or blocked by network operators and phone/OS manufacturers to enforce a central authority and paying subscribers.
Privacy concerns are often used to explain these decisions, but I see those as mere excuses. Mesh node identifiers could just be randomly regenerated periodically or handled anonymously. Also firewall rules could easily ensure only authorized services can communicate.
It was interesting to observe how quickly similar P2P features were enabled in the fight against Covid-19 (contact tracing via BLE advertisement packets).
At the same time it is harder than ever to use, for example, Android's WiFi or Bluetooth in an App-controlled manner. Only the central authority, not the owner of the device nor independent App developers are apparently supposed to actually use the devices capabilities.
Quite frustrating.
I have been thinking about building a generic case/USB gadget to enable free communication, but such a solution would have many drawbacks versus using the internal radios.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/media...
Other parts of West Germany also sport lower population density (Lower Saxony in the North, Bavaria in the South).
It is absolutely astonishing how strongly human behavior (industry and metropolitan areas) influences local environmental conditions. I guess most cities may (be forced to) change radically.