I would advocate the use of such technology for emergency only. Despite being immersed in it (just like so many other readers on THG), there are times I just want to get away from it all and rely not on a bunch of transistors, but on my wits.
I want places to remain wild, untamed and natural - not trampled on by tourists, border hoppers, corporate interests (including loggers), cars, trucks..roads. No mobile phones buzzing away. Just wilderness.
I know my post is not strictly aimed at this article; it's more of general gripe at the way a lot of people seem so eager to 'develop' what little we have left of our wilderness areas. If we're too greedy and ignorant to care, and if we keep filling it with roads..concrete..houses..people and all their technology, then there will simply be no places left in which we can be inspired to dream and pass on what we have to the next generation.
Sometimes you just need to recharge your own batteries.