Who knows, in the process, we just might change the course of history. There are nearly 6 billion people on this planet the greater majority of which live in abject poverty. To be sure, the peoples of the world that are thus affected do not really want the money in our wallets, the shirt on our backs, the food on our plates. What they most urgently need from the rest of humanity that is living in relative affluence is information information about how the world works, how one grows corn, makes an airplane or a car that conquers great distances. It is what makes the chair you sit on, the building we are in, the network that is connecting us both in this room and beyond.
Information is ubiquitous.
It is the thing in our DNA that makes each of us a statistical improbability. In my humble opinion, therefore, the best application for satellite based platforms is broadcasting information. They are a great tool for the dissemination of information information in the form of education or entertainment, information that is life changing or world changing. However, while there has been a lot of broadcasting related activities and new applications some of which we will hear about today there has always been impediments to widespread usage of satellite systems. And then goes out and designs a system, yes from scratch, to meet that need.