Starlink is a Very Big Deal →
January 12, 2020 • #An interesting detailed analysis on SpaceX’s Starlink project, which intends to put tens of thousands of microsatellites in orbit to provide a blanket of global internet connectivity.
Starlink’s world-spanning internet will bring high quality internet access to every corner of the globe. For the first time, internet availability will depend not on how close a particular country or city comes to a strategic fiber route, but on whether it can view the sky. Entrepreneurs the world over will have unfettered access to the global internet irrespective of their own variously incompetent and/or corrupt government telco monopolies. Starlink’s monopoly-breaking capacity will catalyze enormous positive change, bringing, for the first time, billions of humans into our future global cybernetic collective.
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