…more fully, ‘No Wi-Fi’: The Real Sign of Our Times, which is an interesting look at the origins of and reasons for our steadily-expanding ad hoc digital distributed network. Anyway, if you’d like a look at what the world might have looked like if things had gone differently, check out Charlie Stross’s and Cory Doctorow’s alt-history “Unwirer.” Admittedly, the story takes as its divergence point the copyright wars of the 1990s instead of the regulatory decisions of the 1980s; also admittedly, the authors’ own political biases are entertaining to see when they’re not being painful to read. Still, not a bad reminder that there was never any guarantee that we were going to have this wireless world.