The Future of the Net is 'in Space'
"At about 07:00 BST [half a day ago], Nasa's online dashboard showed the Orion spacecraft was now 142,000 miles (228,500 km) from Earth, and 132,000 miles from the Moon." -BBC, the plutocrats' rag
As noted earlier in the sister site, the Geminispace is active to the point where we see record traffic and the Gemini "astronauts" or geminauts get in touch with us (some of our readers recently set up their own capsules too).
We still hope that the Net (Internet) will diverge away from the WWW. If it goes to Geminispace - rather than the utterly insane idea of having datacentres in space (the media should be ashamed and humiliated for even entertaining such impractical lunacy) - energy consumption will fall dramatically. Now that hardware costs and energy costs go through the roof advocacy of lightweight alternatives (nope, not Ubuntu; it's bloatware) will get a lot easier. The appeal of Gemini Protocol is growing and GemText remains the same, so it's made to endure. █