First of all, it ignores the fact that the value chain is connected to the environment, that resources are being extracted at the upstream end and that consumers are dumping their used products back into the environment at the downstream end.
At the top of the data food chain is the broadband connected laptop (with a 3G chip in it), of which there are 94 million in use, soaking up the equivalent of 22 smartphones of data.
" Interestingly enough, the system supposedly relies on "modified software" running on regular WiFi equipment, and wireless access points with the newfangled software can seemingly daisy-chain directional network traffic through "several carefully aligned steerable antennas in order to eventually reach a fiber link connected to the internet.