{"id":134632,"date":"2022-01-24T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T07:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/facebook-robot-winds-fiber-optic-cable-around-power-lines"},"modified":"2022-01-24T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T07:23:19","slug":"facebook-robot-winds-fiber-optic-cable-around-power-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/facebook-robot-winds-fiber-optic-cable-around-power-lines","title":{"rendered":"Facebook robot winds fiber-optic cable around power lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-robot-winds-fiber-optic-cable-around-power-lines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Facebook robot that wraps fiber-optic cable around existing power lines could help bridge the digital divide by bringing internet access to some of the billions of people who currently lack it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> The 60% of the world population with internet access has social, economic, financial, and educational advantages over the other 40%, most of whom live in developing nations or rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/series\/diy-science\/the-homemade-internet-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">internet networks<\/a> is a major barrier to bringing internet access to those people \u2014 if the Facebook robot can cut that cost, it could help close this \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/technology\/the-digital-divide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital divide<\/a>\u201d and make the world a more equitable place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook robot that wraps fiber-optic cable around existing power lines could help bridge the digital divide by bringing internet access to some of the billions of people who currently lack it. Why it matters: The 60% of the world population with internet access has social, economic, financial, and educational advantages over the other 40%, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,32,45,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-finance","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}