Shelter in the Air

Title: FlockNet

Parameters: Megaplex of Fez, Morocco, north Africa. Year 2027. World  population 12 billion, 60% of population lives in cities, 70% of that in third world  countries.

Problem: Huge, autonomous, self-governed cities without feasible political or  economic way for introducing adequate local data / educational network infrastructure.  Satellites are controlled by few huge corporations.

Attempted solution: Hybrid urbanization.
Solution is borrowed from nature and data networks organization. It appears as artificial flock of birds constantly flying above  city. It is swarm like entity with different casts - embodiment of distributed data network which takes shape above city. Each  autonomous cellular unit is solar propelled ultra-light miniature glider, equipped with processor and cheap receiver / sender, doing  simple tasks such as data packets switching and transferring data to other nearest unit.
Flying, the Flock can reach any point in mega-city. There is no central unit, so it shapes and distributes itself by need. It is never  completely replaced but always updated by seeding more units from airships and introducing new casts and algorithms. We  communicate with the Flock by using any kind of patchwork equipment or discarded grounded gliders.

It is independent from anything and uncontrollable. It shelters us... from us.
It teaches and it listens...It is...

...recyclable...

...guerrilla...

...hybrid...

...stealth...

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