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Originally Posted by AdamJL
Not arguing against the attitudes of the corporations doing this. There's just much more to the internet than Facebook 
The internet might very well be able to manage the issues of clean water and food as well; remote farming and crop management all linked via satellite. Monitoring of river courses and floods in unreachable areas, etc.
Smarter people than me will come up with ingenious ways to use it. |
The internet is an energy and resources hog. 70% entertainment. It's not only a nuisance up there with the satellite constellations. It's also all the ground based infrastructure and devices needed to stream and deliver all the data.
I like the 5G argument of the old lady in the Australian outback needing urgent treatment made possible remotely with an ultra fast live connection by a surgeon operating based in Sydney. That's 0.0001% of what the internet is used for today. Would be so much cheaper to have a good surgeon living in a town nearby, equip him and and pay him well.