world have no access
to. Not yet touched by
the hand of the internet
god, they don’t know
what is to be ‘connected’. But a conversation
is now starting to bubble over novel modes of
extending connectivity
to them by beaming it
down from space—but
more on that later.
When you send an
e-mail, you casually tap on the ‘send’
button. Whoosh. And
like that, it’s gone. You
think nothing of it after
that, secure in the certainty that it’ll pop up
5
in another inbox, near,
far, or very, very far
away. You couldn’t be
sniggered at for thinking that it flew away on
the wingtips of a firedrake. After all, there’s
so little of this service
that we can see—nothing beyond our laptop,
router, and modem.