I was asked a question on
how new technology is going to affect the future of social media. I came across
an article that was very interesting, and will change social media for the
whole world. The article is about Internet for everyone in the world. This
would make pretty much everything accessible no matter where you were on the
globe. You could be in the middle of the dessert and have access to maps,
email, texts, and any social media platform you wanted. What a great idea
right?
Richard Branson an English billionaire along with a
few others such as Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are working on getting this
idea to become a reality.
According to theverge.com
Richard Branson is the closest to making this happen. I thought it would be
awhile before this happened, but they plan on launching the first one by the
end of 2016. That means within the next 5 years there could be internet access
for EVERYONE on the Earth.
The first question I had was will it be free? The
answer was given in the video by Elon Musk, and it was of course not. They
would go out of business. Someone is going to have to pay for it. In the other
video Richard Bronson mentions that governments may pay for it. They were
unclear on how expensive it would be, but it will probably be a reasonable
price since they will be competing with other internet and telephone companies.
Going back to how this will affect social media. First
off they are giving internet access to more than 3 billion people that doesn’t
have access right now. It will increase the usage of each social media site or
apps. Mark
Zuckerberg actually had the idea of doing a similar thing as Branson and
Musk, but it was more focused in certain areas of the world and not for the
entire globe. His intentions were to
increase the number of users of Facebook and Instagram. The others may have
other intentions as well, but it’s not as direct as Mark’s.
I think the idea of providing internet to the whole
world is a great idea. They claim that it will be high speed internet, but will
the speed vary depending on where you’re at in the world? They mentioned about
having a router type thing being placed on roofs of buildings, vehicles,
aircrafts, and other objects. Would they have to put one in the middle of the
dessert, jungle, or mountain region? I thought they would just get a direct signal
from their device to the satellite. Have you ever been somewhere and you needed
to get in contact with someone for some reason or another and haven’t had
service or the ability to? Or where the service is there, but it’s not strong
enough or keeps going in and out? It’s the most frustrating thing in the world!
This will eliminate that problem, and will make it possible to do things no
matter where you are in the world. There are many other reasons to provide the
world internet other than just for social media reasons, but it would benefit
the social media aspect of the internet tremendously! I can’t wait to see this
plan become a reality and how it will affect the world. Only a few more years
and we should know more about it, and it will only improve from there!
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