The power of Joi
Posted on:: January 10th, 2004
So, I’m at this big Dean organizing event in a hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and I plug in my wifi card just for kicks. And — surprise! — it tells me I’m getting signal, which is surprising since the event and the hall don’t have any wifi transmitters. So, I look at the properties of the connection:
This would be great except Joi Ito is some thousands of miles away, telling Sony executives what they need to know about the future of media, a fact I confirm with Boris Anthony, Joi’s blogmaster who happens to be at the Dean thing.
And, no, there wasn’t really any wifi working, ad hoc or otherwise.
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I’m in Tokyo leaving for Hawaii today. I’m testing a new wifi projection technique I learned from a monk in Kyoto last week. I guess it’s working.
Verily, a ghost in the machine.
Hi David,
Was good seeing you guys again and hooking up. :)
Joi: LOL. That explains that I guess… ;)
Looks like someone was connected to Joi’s computer via Computer-to-Computer networking, and then when they opened up their laptop at the Dean place it was still connected to the Computer-to-Computer network — even if it was the only computer on the SSID.
Maybe it was YOUR computer David. ;-p
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