I too want to take massive hits of the internet when I’m on the road.

But I would rather battery JUICE stations

Last night my phone died and I was hurtin’. I wish that NYC street vendors had charging stations, this way while you wait for the juice you might buy roasted nuts, a hot dog or whatever else tourists buy.

innonate:

Amazon’s new Import/Export feature is about half-way to a dream I’ve had for sometime.

I would take this one step further and install ATM-like machines around town hooked up with 20mbps+ connections. At these drop-points, you could easily connect a device via USB, Firewire, Ethernet, or even WiFi, and up or download huge files at SUPER FAST speeds.

Why, you ask?

Most of us have lots of data. Sometimes we want to back-up all of it, sometimes we want to send large chunks of it, and sometimes we want to add large chunks of it.

The problem is that in Cities and rural places, the last mile of Internet isn’t going to get much better any time soon (VZ is laser focused on rich suburbs for FiOS).

So, sure there’s an amazing promise of backing up my whole computer in the cloud, and sure I’d love to download HD movies, but in reality I don’t back up everything in the cloud and at the end of the day I only download SD movies, because my Internet connection blows so much.

But what if I had an up/download station somewhere in — let’s say — Union Square, where I could swing by and download a 4GB HD movie in just a few minutes? What if I could load in a harddrive and backup my entire collection in only a few minutes?

Maybe I’m way off base for the demand for this. But several times in my life — including right about now, I wished I could hop onto the Internet backbone and pump or dump some massive amounts of bits.