Starlink hitting places that never had real internet before. Rural Kenya, Haiti islands, mountain villages in Bolivia.
The argument: internet access = way out of poverty. Once you're online, you can learn basically anything for free.
Not wrong. But also not new. We've heard this optimism before with every connectivity wave. The real question is always execution and whether local infrastructure, education systems, and economic conditions can actually convert bandwidth into real upward mobility.
Still, hard to argue against more people getting online. Just don't expect it to solve everything overnight.
The argument: internet access = way out of poverty. Once you're online, you can learn basically anything for free.
Not wrong. But also not new. We've heard this optimism before with every connectivity wave. The real question is always execution and whether local infrastructure, education systems, and economic conditions can actually convert bandwidth into real upward mobility.
Still, hard to argue against more people getting online. Just don't expect it to solve everything overnight.