I'm not in, Damburger. I'm quite happy with the Internet as it is, even with the weaknesses there are.

I have no idea what you are planning to do with some cable and some people here and there, when you need either satellites or ocean floor cables to get a worldwide community again. I think doing everything possible to improve the current internet, and supporting companies, governments or institutions that want to make a better one, is a way better move, than some futile small scale tinkering.
And I don't share your doom and gloom scenario. There are many corporations and people that have a serious interest in keeping the internet "free", not free in the monetary sense perhaps (it isn't in Belgium and in many other countries), but free like in freedom of speech, and freedom of enterprise. There are still small, individual efforts that grow rapidly and reach lots of people, and I don't see any indication that that is disappearing (I'm talking about democratic countries here). On the contrary, this seems to be increasing, as the buzzword Internet 2.0 indicates (never mind that it is a marketing concept, it does reflect an existing new Internet culture). Just look at how Kazaa or BitTorrent have reshaped the media (music, movie) market. These were individual efforts, not large corporations.

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