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Google Everywhere Just Got Real

b2ap3_thumbnail_AtmosphericSatelliteByTitan.jpgTitan Atmospheric Satellite & Google Team Up

 

Google’s purchase of Titan Aerospace will bring Internet to remote locations. At least that’s what some say. http://www.reuters.com/video/2014/04/15/reuters-tv-titan-aerospace-a-sky-high-platform-for?videoId=310012780&videoChannel=118065  Costs of operation of Titan’s high flying drone will offer satellite coverage worldwide at 1/100th the cost of present day satellites.

 

Titan also offers high flying giant helium balloons as part of its Project Loon, although no one seems quite as enthusiastic in comparison to cheers for the solar powered, forever flying drone airplane, known in Titan circles as an ‘atmospheric satellite’ that will possibly fit in with Google’s plans to bring the net to all. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/04/14/google-buys-drone-maker-titan-aerospace-2

 

 

HFS analysts note that Facebook, the lead suitor for Titan until Google swooped in to offer more money last week, might have had similar plans. The competition for the future Internet seems to be unfolding right before the eyes of the world. What do you think?

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Facebook To Buy Drone-maker Titan Aerospace for $60 M

Facebook Weaponization with Drones?  http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/us-facebook-titan-idUSBREA231KB20140304 

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Today Facebook announced its ambition to purchase Titan Aerospace (TA) for $60 M. And what’s the connection between social networking and drones, the specialty of TA? According to Facebook board member Asher Delung, who confirmed unauthorized leaks about the plan, the drones fit with Facebook’s efforts to spread social networking technology across the world to places without wireless Internet connectivity. http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/03/facebook-in-talks-to-acquire-drone-maker-titan-aerospace/

Analysts at http://HamiltonFinanceServices.com wonder aloud how private drones crossing Chinese, Korean, or Iranian airspace might be received. Will Facebook be perceived as a US surveillance puppet by hyper-defensive military forces? Will conservative Muslim or other religious groups find the cultural implications of Facebook acts of war against their religions?

Some social scientists argue that actions to change culture underlie war. http://archive.cyark.org/heritage-at-risk-acts-of-human-aggression-blog So, could Facebook’s planned drone broadcasts to promote social connectivity become a Western weapon of cultural destruction? What do you think?