“Where bad means are used to achieve a worthy end, the goal actually reached is never the good end originally proposed, but merely the inevitable consequence of using bad means.”

– Aldous Huxley

You can start by declaring the radical experiment of wireless transmissions a failure. This hurts. The truth hurts. The gambler’s fallacy won’t be there to catch you. Biology rules. When it’s dead, so is life on earth. The cost may not be communicated by the economy, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Which is the reason that the perennial human habit of taking life—especially our Mr. Hyde superorganism and its vicious consequences to the life that provides for life—for granted.

Does this mean IT is over?

No. It means IT needs to mature—and fast.

Fortunately, there is a fallback: fiberoptics. Already in place. And a solution: shielding. You may be able to get by with losing a milligauss, but the days of maximizing harm to life are over—unless you’re part of a homicide-suicide plan for your superorganisms. IT guys who love the outdoors and hated it when Yosemite burned may get this first. You don’t want to aid and abet the desertification of California. No sensible person in their right mind who isn’t already hopelessly toxic would.