This is so awesome. High-speed internet no matter where you are in the world.
If you're not too familiar with Starlink, it's a network of many, many satellites that provide widespread coverage to anywhere on the planet, stationed in low Earth orbit. Very different from the stationary satellites that power extremely slow satellite internet.
Fiber's not gonna be obsolete anytime soon because it's still much easier and cheaper to lay down in urban areas. But this'll serve anyone living in rural areas and make telecommuting to work entirely possible even if you don't live in a city.

The future is decentralized.
The pandemic is bad but one upside to it is that telecommuting is now being normalized. With the growth of logistical supply lines (thanks to Amazon's massive distribution fleet and others), and Starlink for high speed internet access, living in a city will soon be unnecessary.
Living in a densely packed city is horrific for your mental health. Humans were never supposed live in the equivalent of a sardine can.
In a related note, this means that Democrats and other urban-oriented parties elsewhere in the world will no longer hold as much power as they do right now due to the sheer number of voters packed into places like Los Angeles and NYC.

Decentralization is good for conservatives.

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