Globenet (CTP1)

Globenet is an advance in Civilization: Call to Power.
==Summary==
GlobeNet, the sixth Economic Advance, is the culmination of two centuries of global wiring. The GlobeSat, a satellite imaging system, allows the Civilization a view of the entire world in the radar map.
== Great Library entry ==
Completed in 1866, the Atlantic telegraph cable opened trans-oceanic telecommunications. However, the Atlantic cable was but the first of a growing communication network. Soon with Space Flight, the orbits around Earth became open real estate. In 1974 the first commercial satellite flew into orbit, and by the early 21st century, a combination of fiber optic land lines and rings of orbital digital satellites had linked the world irrevocably.