Who will be visiting the unconnected of the earth?
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 6:01 am
Facebook is competing directly with Google's Project Loon , derived from balloon. Google wants to launch large balloons into the stratosphere, at an altitude of 32 kilometers, which will make internet access feasible in the most inaccessible and remote areas. Billions of people will be freed from their isolation.
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A new faith
If you look at how traditional religions were spread in this world , you see that there is always a source from which the world was conquered geographically. This is true for Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam: the preachers, prophets, missionaries and witnesses spread the faith. Now the whole world – whether it is Google or Facebook or someone else – is offered access to a new faith.
Education for all children. Weather reports for all farmers. Tsunami warning belgium mobile phone number list Online consultation hours for the sick. Will you help eradicate malaria from the world with this? What happens to Muslim girls who secretly attend school? What does a farmer in Kenya do when he knows that the drought will last for months?
Will it be a missionary from Facebook or the imam from Google? Who will ensure that net neutrality – the principle that no preference is given to carriers on the network – is guaranteed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96tYpE ... e=youtu.be
Human rights
“Connectivity is a human right,” wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg half a year ago. “Not being connected is also a human right,” said BMW CEO Manfred Schoch last month . In German: “Recht auf Unerreichbarkeit.” He said this to protect BMW employees from the full-time status of being reachable, always available for their boss or colleague. The dividing line between work time and free time has become virtual.
Being connected is a right, being unconnected is too. But to realize the latter you must have done the former.
This column was also published in Het Financieele Dagblad.
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A new faith
If you look at how traditional religions were spread in this world , you see that there is always a source from which the world was conquered geographically. This is true for Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam: the preachers, prophets, missionaries and witnesses spread the faith. Now the whole world – whether it is Google or Facebook or someone else – is offered access to a new faith.
Education for all children. Weather reports for all farmers. Tsunami warning belgium mobile phone number list Online consultation hours for the sick. Will you help eradicate malaria from the world with this? What happens to Muslim girls who secretly attend school? What does a farmer in Kenya do when he knows that the drought will last for months?
Will it be a missionary from Facebook or the imam from Google? Who will ensure that net neutrality – the principle that no preference is given to carriers on the network – is guaranteed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96tYpE ... e=youtu.be
Human rights
“Connectivity is a human right,” wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg half a year ago. “Not being connected is also a human right,” said BMW CEO Manfred Schoch last month . In German: “Recht auf Unerreichbarkeit.” He said this to protect BMW employees from the full-time status of being reachable, always available for their boss or colleague. The dividing line between work time and free time has become virtual.
Being connected is a right, being unconnected is too. But to realize the latter you must have done the former.
This column was also published in Het Financieele Dagblad.