{"id":2279,"date":"2016-05-04T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-05-04T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T19:06:16","slug":"16-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/2016\/05\/04\/16-internet-access\/","title":{"rendered":"#16 \u2013 Internet Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the most recent F8 Facebook conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new initiatives for expanding internet access across the world saying\u00a0<span class=\"author-225235037 font-size-20\">\u201cWe stand for connecting every person, for a global community, for bringing people together, for giving everyone a voice.\u201d In this episode of URTechSavvy Scott and I discuss the technologies behind what it means to be \u2018connected\u2019 but we also dive into the social and economical issues associated with\u00a0having reliable, affordable internet. Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>LINKS MENTIONED DURING PODCAST:<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/loon\/\">Google Project Loon<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/code.facebook.com\/posts\/1072680049445290\/introducing-facebook-s-new-terrestrial-connectivity-systems-terragraph-and-project-aries\/\">Facebook F8 Projects<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virgin.com\/richard-branson\/creating-the-worlds-largest-ever-satellite-constellation-0\">OneWeb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the most recent F8 Facebook conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new initiatives for expanding internet access across the world saying\u00a0\u201cWe stand for connecting every person, for a global community, for bringing people together, for giving ev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2092,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urtechsavvy-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}