The potential of Amazon and SpaceX's rural internet initiatives is genuinely underappreciated. While I remain skeptical about their ability to deliver truly low-latency service, even higher-latency connections with affordable bandwidth could be transformative - enabling everything from basic banking and logistics to sophisticated AI-powered agricultural solutions and remote office work.
We probably won't see the next Twitch streamer emerge from an African village (the latency demands are just too high), but I wouldn't be surprised if we see the next TikTok sensation come from one of these newly connected regions. Pre-recorded content is much more forgiving of network constraints.
Here's a bold prediction: by 2030, we'll see the first orbital caching servers become operational. That's when we'll know this sector has truly arrived. The physics and economics will finally align to make space-based content delivery networks viable.
The potential of Amazon and SpaceX's rural internet initiatives is genuinely underappreciated. While I remain skeptical about their ability to deliver truly low-latency service, even higher-latency connections with affordable bandwidth could be transformative - enabling everything from basic banking and logistics to sophisticated AI-powered agricultural solutions and remote office work.
We probably won't see the next Twitch streamer emerge from an African village (the latency demands are just too high), but I wouldn't be surprised if we see the next TikTok sensation come from one of these newly connected regions. Pre-recorded content is much more forgiving of network constraints.
Here's a bold prediction: by 2030, we'll see the first orbital caching servers become operational. That's when we'll know this sector has truly arrived. The physics and economics will finally align to make space-based content delivery networks viable.