Not so long time ago this writers of yours found him in a place where there was no net connection. Yes, loud and clear no net connection. For some of you cynic ones if you can call getting Google front page in fifteen minutes net connectivity then okay accept deepest apologies for my usage of phrase 'no net connection'.
I started a mission which continued for about ten months to hunt for decent internet connection. I interrogated (Yeah Interrogated) nearly all mobile shops owners and tried every mobile network before I went to the great Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited. BSNL officers nearly cried over my shoulder and expressed their inability to provide me broadband connection. Don't ask me why? I will try to remember everything they had told me and then write them in any another blog. I never gave up in spite of everything. Idle chrome on my laptop always used to ignite my search but the day my bags were finally packed for leaving the place one thing was crystal clear to me. I failed
If you started thinking it’s an article painting trials and tribulations of an internet obsessed guy (Alright I am internet obsessed but it’s not about me) sorry to break your presumptions it’s just an attempt to demonstrate that there are several areas in the country without proper internet connection and many more areas without any connection at all.
Now if some hot head now would question what’s the need of internet in those areas or what would people in those areas would do with internet. Now please get any class eight textbook for noting advantages of internet I am not discussing them here. Alright I have few lines to spare. Internet could give a poor class eleventh class kid a chance to study with world class teachers and could help him compete for IITS, Medical, NDA. Internet could connect a community center health worker to world class doctors in renowned hospitals. Internet could guide a farmer about weather, soil conditions, loan schemes, government. I should stop now or you would get bored but bottom line is all you of you bright ones are aware of advantages of internet.
GREAT PROBLEM Singular problem is. In a big and geographically diverse country as India (It’s not just for India. It holds true for every geographically diverse country) it’s too tough to manage an infrastructure that would be economically feasible for bringing high speed internet to all
ENTERS BALLOON In July of last year that was 2013 Google brought something quite freaky out of its secret X lab (I seriously am working to find out if wolverine really got claws there) Project Loon.
Thirty solar powered balloons were released in the stratosphere in New Zealand’s Christchurch area and Canterbury. The selection of New Zealand for pilot was because of three reasons. First New Zealand is large nation with several remote provinces second during the 2011 earthquakes several residents of Christchurch area lost internet connectivity for several days which delayed them to contact their friends and families and last New Zealand administration and regulation were too cooperative for Google officials so New Zealand became first nation to use Balloon powered Internet
HOW IT WORKS Google Balloon flows in the stratosphere (The same layer where ozone is there) above airplanes or weather interferences. Air in stratosphere is calm, steady and if you go up or down in stratosphere the magnitude and direction of air changes. Google uses this property of stratosphere to control where its balloon would be. Software algorithms control the balloon’s altitude and hence the direction of its movement. Result multiple balloons could form a network in stratosphere that in turn would result in continuous network connectivity in every nook and corner.
WHAT IT MEANS July 2013 was just a pilot. There are several things like cost, internet regulations of different countries that’s to be considered before making the thing reality for the whole world but I hope Google would succeed in the effort and the conditions like Christchurch earthquake or Uttarakhand floods where many with mobiles and laptops were unable to contact anybody because of absence of connectivity would be stories of dark ages.
The Childs toy is turning smiles of millions. For Google says everyone should be everyone
Courtesy: Google Inc For more details about Google’s Project Loon click here
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