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Dailywireless.org is a good source of news on the burgeoning wireless world with an emphasis on community networking.
Here are some good notes (with some good links) about the kind of networks we should be aiming at (relatively short.) That link is from this quick roundup of Pulver's Connectivity 2002 conference at the always informative satn.org.
This is the technology, although not necessarily the implementation, that I'm waiting for. I don't like the word "patented" in this marketing passage, but the rest sounds right on:
MeshNetworks has developed a revolutionary mobile broadband network architecture based on patented ad hoc peer-to-peer (p2p) routing technology. The result is a self-forming, self-healing wireless mesh where mobile devices become the network.