Why Did This Take So Long
I am no technologist, but occasionally a new idea comes long that makes one wonder why it did NOT make its appearance much sooner. Not being connected to the internet has so many disadvantages that I won't bore you with even a short list of them. There are areas of our world that have no internet access and Google just announced a plant to deploy a one billion dollar satellite network to essentially get the entire planet online. The network will be comprised of 180 low altitude satellites.
As humanitarian as this all sounds and as Adam Smith's invisible hand predicted, Google also wins by expanding its advertising network. You see it is not really the benevolence of the baker or brewer that is at work here, but that is another article. The following is a snippet of a Market Watch article by Andy Pasztor and Alistair(Alastair misspelled at MW) Barr that has some fascinating commentary about satellite antennas that have no moving parts which have obvious favorable implications with respect to wear and tear and maintenance costs:
Google Inc. plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the globe, people familiar with the project said, hoping to overcome the financial and technical problems that thwarted previous efforts......Google also is hoping to take advantage of advances in antennas that can track multiple satellites as they move across the sky. Antennas developed by companies including Kymeta Corp. have no moving parts and are controlled by software, which reduces manufacturing and maintenance costs.
As humanitarian as this all sounds and as Adam Smith's invisible hand predicted, Google also wins by expanding its advertising network. You see it is not really the benevolence of the baker or brewer that is at work here, but that is another article. The following is a snippet of a Market Watch article by Andy Pasztor and Alistair(Alastair misspelled at MW) Barr that has some fascinating commentary about satellite antennas that have no moving parts which have obvious favorable implications with respect to wear and tear and maintenance costs:
Google Inc. plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the globe, people familiar with the project said, hoping to overcome the financial and technical problems that thwarted previous efforts......Google also is hoping to take advantage of advances in antennas that can track multiple satellites as they move across the sky. Antennas developed by companies including Kymeta Corp. have no moving parts and are controlled by software, which reduces manufacturing and maintenance costs.
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