The Internet’s Future Lies Up in the Skies

[Commentary] The business of getting bits to people and their devices has barely begun. Most people don’t have access to the Internet, and of those who do, most are on connections you, the reader, would find unacceptably slow. The solution to the related challenges of getting Internet to the next four billion people, and making it fast, will very likely be Internet from the sky. A new generation of launch and satellite technology, plus new ideas about what constitutes a satellite, are transforming the sky above our heads into waypoints for data that could reach our mobile devices as quickly as from terrestrial networks, with the advantage of global coverage.