A quiet experiment in Bluetooth, offline communication, and why we gave up too much when we handed our conversations to the cloud.
The last time I was truly unreachable, I was in a place with no cell signal and no Wi-Fi. And I realized something strange: I had no way to send a message to the person sitting three feet away from me — because every app on my phone needed the internet to do it.
That felt wrong.
We've built the most sophisticated communication technology in human history, and somehow it all routes through a handful of servers in Northern Virginia before reaching someone in the same room.
So I built Bluetoosh.
