You Won't Even Know These Facebook Drones Are In the Sky

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Facebook wants to fill the sky with drones. An even though you’ll probably never see them, they’ll provide an important — although not exactly uncontroversial — service to the planet.

Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a white paper, titled “Connecting the World from the Sky,” at Internet.org, a nonprofit established to increase Internet access globally. The organization believes that a connected world is, to borrow a favorite Zuckerberg phrase, more “free and open.” Mark ZuckerbergReutersZuckerberg: “Connecting the world is one of the fundamental challenges of our time.”

But there’s a problem: Although much of the developed world has abundant Internet access through a variety of technologies, much of the developing world doesn’t.

Source: www.businessinsider.com

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