On devices with appropriate hardware, apps and nearby devices can discover and communicate with each other over Wi - Fi without an Internet access point. (xda-developers.com)
With a platform such as CEX.IO, you can actually purchase an ASIC miner through the cloud instantly, and you'll actually start mining in minutes rather than months, without wasting your time for choosing appropriate hardware and software. (bitcoinmining.shop)
If you haven't heard of it, here's a quick definition from a 2008 paper by Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg, two scientists at the University of Oxford: «The basic idea is to take a particular brain, scan its structure in detail and construct a software model of it so faithful to the original that, when run on appropriate hardware, it will behave in essentially the same way as the original brain.» (scientificamerican.com)