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The balloons have a form similar to hot air balloons: the diameter is about 15 meters and will reach a height of 20 kilometers. If a person looks up will not be able to see them. They are self thanks to photovoltaic panels.
In New Zealand extend the coverage so far guaranteed the territory: they build a bridge between local providers of in ternet access (ISP) and the buildings of the users.
Last week 30 balloons were released and about 50 people have tried the connections of the Loon Project. Other tests may be conducted in countries at the same latitude of New Zealand. ![]()
The world’s population online
The challenge comes from the newly launched insights meetings Moonshots launched by Google to answer betting visionary through the hi-tech innovation. According
the Itu later this year will be 2.7 billion people on the Internet: the border is to reach the 7.2 billion inhabitants of the Earth estimated by the United Nations.
Ideas such as hot air balloons are only a fragment a mosaic of larger projects to facilitate the expansion of the Internet and build a global digital space already glimpsed by Nicholas Negroponte, former director of the MIT Media Lab, in his book “Being Digital.”
The balloons have a form similar to hot air balloons: the diameter is about 15 meters and will reach a height of 20 kilometers. If a person looks up will not be able to see them. They are self thanks to photovoltaic panels.
In New Zealand extend the coverage so far guaranteed the territory: they build a bridge between local providers of in ternet access (ISP) and the buildings of the users.
Last week 30 balloons were released and about 50 people have tried the connections of the Loon Project. Other tests may be conducted in countries at the same latitude of New Zealand.
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The challenge comes from the newly launched insights meetings Moonshots launched by Google to answer betting visionary through the hi-tech innovation. According
the Itu later this year will be 2.7 billion people on the Internet: the border is to reach the 7.2 billion inhabitants of the Earth estimated by the United Nations.
Ideas such as hot air balloons are only a fragment a mosaic of larger projects to facilitate the expansion of the Internet and build a global digital space already glimpsed by Nicholas Negroponte, former director of the MIT Media Lab, in his book “Being Digital.”
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