| Technology is bringing the world closer. People | | | | New Delhi. The possibilities of communication are |
| who live thousands of miles away from each | | | | really infinite when satellite internet is involved. |
| other, in foreign lands, separated by huge oceans, | | | | One intrepid climber actually documented his entire |
| looming mountains and a million different shades | | | | trek up Mount Everest and shared it with an |
| of political red tape, can get in touch with the | | | | entire school. The students were able to ask him |
| simple click of the mouse. Satellite internet has | | | | questions in real time. They could send him their |
| made it that easy. | | | | letters and drawings and thoughts and he'd |
| The world is filled with billions of people. This | | | | receive them quickly via a simple satellite uplink. |
| family of man, comes from all walks of life. They | | | | Even people in the same country can get |
| live disparate lives, separated by culture, tongue | | | | connected via satellite internet. In the most |
| and religion. Yet for all the diversity, for all the | | | | remote depths of the US, for example, people |
| millions of miles of spatial separation, many people | | | | who live in cabins thousands of miles from a gas |
| choose to come together, to communicate, to | | | | station or Walmart can share their tales of |
| share, and to learn from one another via the | | | | country living on their own blogs using a high |
| internet. | | | | speed internet connection. A reporter in the |
| Thus, an anthropologist in New Guinea can | | | | woods of California can report on a fire and |
| communicate with his students in a classroom in | | | | exchange information with a colleague in New |
| Leeds via a simple satellite internet uplink. | | | | York. Doctors in India and Cambridge can |
| Scientists in the North Pole can relay their | | | | collaborate on the diagnosis of a rare disease. |
| research to their colleagues in Barcelona, Spain or | | | | Even newer net based technologies like the |
| Boston, Massachusetts. The fact that even in the | | | | popular Twitter program can rally thousands of |
| remotest, harshest territories, people can | | | | people together. Light communications technology |
| communicate using a satellite broadband | | | | has been responsible for the spread of headlines |
| connection is astounding. Now you can literally hike | | | | before the major news networks could arrive on |
| through the depths of the Earth and still be | | | | the scene. People use these apps for recruiting aid |
| connected to your nearest and dearest. | | | | workers and helpers in times of crisis. They pass |
| Adventure travelers, whilst seeking their thrills in | | | | on the information to friends in the area in real |
| the Gobi desert or Mount Kilimanjaro can send live | | | | time, creating a whole wave. |
| streaming video feeds to their friends and loved | | | | High speed internet has become a beacon of |
| ones. They can create YouTube videos while | | | | hope for many. It allows them to work, to live, |
| scaling the rocky cliffs of Dover. Research teams | | | | and to stay connected. People are coming |
| in Madagascar can document their finds and | | | | together, sharing their stories and forging new |
| tabulate information, all while getting insight from | | | | friendships. |
| their colleagues and specialists in New York or | | | | |