It may sound like science fiction, but your Internet may soon be beamed down to you using drones and lasers.
Facebook, in connection with its internet.org movement, shared a video of a large drone that can stay in the air for months at a time and bring the Internet to people in rural areas.
This plan joins others in a race to connect the world. For example, Google is attempting to use balloons while Virgin Group and Qualcomm turned to low-flying satellites to accomplish the same thing.
As Tim Worstall explained in a Forbes article, bringing Internet access to those that can't afford it can only help to improve people's lives.
Studies have shown that increasing mobile Internet access to 10 percent of a countrys population boosts its GDP. The same can be said of past innovations like telephones and computers.
Weve also been seeing the beginnings of reports from various of the telecoms consultancies telling us how the expansion of broadband, then mobile broadband (or smartphones, to taste) has been leading to further growth in the societies that have adopted them, he wrote.
To find out just how internet.org plans to revolutionize wireless Internet, watch the video below.
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Facebook, in connection with its internet.org movement, shared a video of a large drone that can stay in the air for months at a time and bring the Internet to people in rural areas.
This plan joins others in a race to connect the world. For example, Google is attempting to use balloons while Virgin Group and Qualcomm turned to low-flying satellites to accomplish the same thing.
As Tim Worstall explained in a Forbes article, bringing Internet access to those that can't afford it can only help to improve people's lives.
Studies have shown that increasing mobile Internet access to 10 percent of a countrys population boosts its GDP. The same can be said of past innovations like telephones and computers.
Weve also been seeing the beginnings of reports from various of the telecoms consultancies telling us how the expansion of broadband, then mobile broadband (or smartphones, to taste) has been leading to further growth in the societies that have adopted them, he wrote.
To find out just how internet.org plans to revolutionize wireless Internet, watch the video below.
Related links:
This is deemed just as important as running water, and it's not a natural resource
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