Great article Gale, well done. As one of the pioneers of consumer and commercial satellite technology, I have watched us go from one satellite with two channels in 1979 to the superabundance of Starlink. One of the prerequisites of superabundance is the freedom to innovate and produce, the freedom to harvest ones efforts and reinvest in your ventures, and the freedom from regulatory and financial repression, and centralized planning. It would be interesting to see on a global basis the correlation between abundance and free markets. I will be taking your course at Peterson Academy.
Great article Gale, well done. As one of the pioneers of consumer and commercial satellite technology, I have watched us go from one satellite with two channels in 1979 to the superabundance of Starlink. One of the prerequisites of superabundance is the freedom to innovate and produce, the freedom to harvest ones efforts and reinvest in your ventures, and the freedom from regulatory and financial repression, and centralized planning. It would be interesting to see on a global basis the correlation between abundance and free markets. I will be taking your course at Peterson Academy.
I am not sure that these systems are entirely comparable, but the point stands.
I never would have thought that, in my lifetime, we would have not hundreds, but thousands of satellites providing global internet access.
I imagine few thought that this was possible, but such is the power of progress.