[palata]

> fiber connection into every ship and airplane?

Sure, life without TikTok in every ship and airplane is terrible. /s

> To every mining site? Along every farmers field?

Yeah, to me the biggest problem is really not having fiber while I'm visiting the Titanic. I hope Starlink is working on that. /s

> governments don't just magically do it because you want them to. Those people are just fucked and its their problem?

Is that a new kind of US interventionism? "We believe those people deserve to pay a subscription to our national high-speed satellite ISP. We do it to save them." The world loves US interventionism. /s

> There are also advantage to using lasers as internet backbone.

And disadvantages.

[panick21_]

Yes your right all use for internet is tiktok and tourism.

That people like you exists on a platform like Hacker News is actually mind blowing.

[palata]

Most flights are tourism, so there's that. Then even considering a business flight, the vast majority of people are not important enough that they need an internet connection during the flight.

Then most of the Internet bandwidth is used for videos, not for corporate e-mails. So... not just TikTok, but I suppose you can make the effort to get my point.

> That people like you exists on a platform like Hacker News is actually mind blowing.

You mean software professionals who don't believe that technology will save us and that we should produce more connected crap because we can?

I like good technology, not profitable technology.

[panick21_]

> You mean software professionals who don't believe that technology will save us

I mean software professional that believe the internet isn't an essential tool for progress.

[palata]

Then your judgement is wrong (source: I know what I believe): I do believe that Internet is great, mostly to share information and knowledge (not to watch TikTok or build more ChatGPT-based useless crap).

But then I do believe that most modern technology is bad: we went into this loop of building more crap on top of old crap because it is profitable, completely missing the actual problems we are facing as a species.

We don't need to send (rich) people to Mars, we need to save life on Earth. But engineers don't like this, because most of the fun and profitable projects today go in the wrong direction: they assume infinite growth, and no consequences.

But engineers seem to believe that if they don't work hard to help humanity destroy itself, then it means that they have to advocate going back to horses and no Internet. And in the meantime we are going (faster and faster) towards wars and famine - probably for us, quite certainly for our children.