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Elon’s “DeathStar” Starlink Service Will Beat Fiber Everywhere

4 October 2026 at 23:35
Musk owns space. With the launch a new class of 100,000 satellites, he is on the verge of making all fiber-optic networks on planet Earth obsolete while moving Grok AI into space. This will give him the reins over the global communications backbone and a monopoly on information flow, pricing, and access. Does Musk hold the trump card? It sure is sounding like it. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.

Elon’s 250 kW Starlink satellites will bring multi-gigabit satellite internet and 5G satellite cellphone everywhere even high density cities. 250 kilowatts per satellite, 10 terabits per second in both directions, and a path to more than 100 terabits per second.

I detailed the 250 kilowatt per Starlink satellite as beating the Space Station in my article and youtube video from 9 days ago.

WHY build satellites this powerful? Serving everyone and leveraging the huge solar and thermal radiators of the planned AI satellites.

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Elon’s 250 kW Starlink satellites will bring multi-gigabit satellite internet and 5G satellite cellphone everywhere even high density cities. 250 kilowatts p...

What the AI boom is actually doing for Americans

5 October 2026 at 13:07

Paul Krugman is the greatest econ writer in the world, and also a legendary economist. But I sometimes feel that he has a blind spot when it comes to the value of new technologies. In 1998 he famously wrote: The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that […]

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A tech glossary to thrive and survive in the AI era

4 October 2026 at 22:04

Certain ideas define us. Some earned names of our own along the way. Others have run through nearly 240 pieces without ever being formally christened. Put together, they amount to a worldview. That worldview has been assembled one essay at a time since 2023. Many readers have walked in mid-conversation. Mention the hardware/software flip, super […]

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