https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/07/googles-internet-balloons-will-soon-connect-all-of-sri-lanka-with-wi-fi Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/07/googles-internet-balloons-will-soon-connect-all-of-sri-lanka-with-wi-fi#comment-264683 Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:52:38 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/07/googles-internet-balloons-will-soon-connect-all-of-sri-lanka-with-wi-fi#comment-264683 “Google (GOOG) sending balloons with radio antennas into the stratosphere as part of a project called “Loon.” Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) is bringing its inexpensive lightRadio technology to small villages without cell towers.” (CNN Money) Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to connect African villages seems impractical (cost, power, illiteracy) however noble his vision: “Connectivity is a human right.’

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