The search giant wants to give everyone on earth Internet access, and it has a high-flying idea for how to accomplish it. June 14, 2013 8:39 PM PDT Google has officially announced "Project Loon," its plan to connect the entire world to the Internet that uses a decidedly 19th century technology: Balloons. According to a post on the official company blog: We believe that it might actually be possible to build a ring of balloons, flying around the globe on the stratospheric winds, that provides Internet access to the earth below. It's very early days, but we've built a system that uses balloons, carried by the wind at altitudes twice as high as commercial planes, to beam Internet access to the ground at speeds similar to today's 3G networks or faster. Developing...
Friday, June 14, 2013
The search giant wants to give everyone on earth Internet access, and it has a high-flying idea for how to accomplish it.
June 14, 2013 8:39 PM PDT
Google has officially announced "Project Loon," its plan to connect the entire world to the Internet that uses a decidedly 19th century technology: Balloons.
According to a post on the official company blog:
We believe that it might actually be possible to build a ring of balloons, flying around the globe on the stratospheric winds, that provides Internet access to the earth below. It's very early days, but we've built a system that uses balloons, carried by the wind at altitudes twice as high as commercial planes, to beam Internet access to the ground at speeds similar to today's 3G networks or faster.
Developing...
