{"id":12824,"date":"2023-12-16T03:32:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T03:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=12824"},"modified":"2023-12-16T03:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T03:39:46","slug":"3-billion-humans-not-on-the-internet-might-be-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/?p=12824","title":{"rendered":"3 Billion humans not on the Internet might be a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering<br \/>\nApproximately 3 billion people globally lack internet access, a gap companies like Starlink and Astranis aim to fill. Starlink uses numerous Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide internet, but it&#8217;s expensive and faces connectivity issues due to the rapid movement of satellites. https:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/nj5nXlNJQg<br \/>\nReplying to @IntEngineering<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this. I think about those 3 billion almost every day. I also worry that what they will find on the Internet is fragmented, untraceable, biased, expensive, controlled, inefficient, and mostly not aimed to help humans live lives with dignity and purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering Approximately 3 billion people globally lack internet access, a gap companies like Starlink and Astranis aim to fill. Starlink uses numerous Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide internet, but it&#8217;s expensive and faces connectivity issues due to the rapid movement of satellites. https:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/nj5nXlNJQg Replying to @IntEngineering Thank you for sharing this. I <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"\/?p=12824\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assistive-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12825,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions\/12825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}