Why Elon Musk’s Starlink Will Change Your Life

Providing 4 billion people with access to the internet will lead to massive changes in digital culture. Here’s what you need to know.

Doug Antin
Predict

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Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash

The most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised.

Often, subtle changes in climate, topography, microbes, and technology alter the logic of violence.
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

The year is 2020 and nearly 40% of the world still does not have stable access to the internet. That’s about 12 times the number of people in the entire United States of America that don’t connect to the internet. For a large number of them, the reason is that they don’t have access to the infrastructure necessary to get online. But that’s about to change with Elon Musks company SpaceX and their Starlink project.

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