Sunday, October 20, 2024

Getting Internet to remote impoverished people


Ok first of all, I didn't know the "Internet" and "web" are different things. 
2:48 "I know that people use the words web and internet interchangeably but they are actually different things the web that's the bit that you see on your screen it's the collection of pages the stuff that is is stored in vast data centers owned by companies like Google and Amazon the internet however that is the physical infrastructure it's the network of cables running over land and along the seafloor that literally link up one machine to another carrying huge volumes of data." 

This team is distributing local Internet data 10-20 km by beams of light, rather than radio waves. 5:30 The challenge turns out to be small wind-induced movements of the tower, 6:09 solved by tiny compensatory movements of a mirror, akin to video stabilization gimbals. 

Google's moonshot "X" program 7:38 operates at "the intersection of purpose and profit," solving such problems to reach 2:20 the last 3 billion people not connected to the Internet. 


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