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

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...
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What the AI boom is actually doing for Americans

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

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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