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#477 – EcoWoke and Going Broke

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  1. Undersea fibre data travels at a fraction of the speed of through space data, makig the starlink constellation lower latency.

    • Here’s a great video on Starlink latency potential: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m05abdGSOxY
      TLDR: as the speed of light in a vacuum is about 50% faster than in glass there’s a chance Starlink with it’s 1000’s of low orbit satellites might be faster. Certainly faster than “old school” geostationary sats (much higher orbit). So the old “fiber is always lower latency than sats” rule may not apply to Starlink.
      I reckon it’s too soon to tell. Also we’ve not seen a real Starlink ground antenna yet.

  2. Please keep to electronics . Perhaps some guests could be from manufacturing , marketing , investor space but all focused on electronics industry . Biggest and ongoing challenges we face are : go to market strategy , every shrinking component size leading to manufacturing and layout challenges , injection molded housing design and manufacture , software tool chains and dev and maintenance costs going up exponentially . People with experience in these areas would augment the engineering specialist discussions.

  4. Fax polling?

    France had the “Minitel” in the 80s, a text-based online service where you could find plenty of info, including company catalogues, and, of course, sex oriented content 😉

    It was subsidised by the state so you could find “Minitel” terminal in almost all middle class households. Of course, like many French innovations with a strong government control, it didn’t adapt and change, and eventually disappeared…
    (Dave should do a teardown!)