Visitors stand next to a high altitude WiFi internet hub, a Google Project Loon balloon, on display at the Airforce Museum in Christchurch on June 16, 2013. Google revealed top-secret plans on June 15 to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population currently without web access. TOPSHOTS AFP PHOTO / MARTY MELVILLE
VANCOUVER: The “captain of moonshots” at Google parent company Alphabet sees widespread, world-changing wireless Internet on the horizon.
Astro Teller, head of the boundary-pushing X research team, shared his vision of the future during a talk at the TED Conference here late Feb 15.
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