Not to be outshone,
Facebook, too, has
ambitions to develop
yet another kind of
network: a network of
massive drones that’ll
allow more people to
get online. ‘Connectivity
Lab’, unveiled in March
last year, envisions
hoisting sun-driven,
long-endurance
flying machines that’ll
stay airborne uninterruptedly for months.
At a recent Mashablehosted conference, Yael
Maguire, the project’s
director of engineering, said that they’d
be about the size of a
Boeing-747. Facebook
is yet to announce
when they’ll roll out.
weapons of destruction but instruments
of empowerment. Not
all of it is motivated
by altruism, of course.
Some of it is driven by
greed. There’s money
to be made and lots of
Since the end of the
Cold War, we haven’t
seen fiercer competition in the aerospace
sphere. Only, this isn’t
a race between two
nations but among corporations, all belonging
to one nation. Also, it’s
not a race to put up
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it. The more the eyeballs, the more is the
advertising
moolah.
But that’s not the end
of it. Mr. Musk intends
to channel that revenue into funding a
similar infrastructure