Show notes:

In Episode 6, we explored if we could travel to space from India. In this bonus episode, we hear what the future of the internet could be like - in our solar system. Will we be able to watch Netflix on Mars, stream Youtube videos, chat with family and friends on Earth and livestream?

Episode features Dr. Abhijeet Borkar, an astrophysicist at the Astronomy Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Imagined Tomorrow is created and hosted by Shreya Dasgupta. Intro and outro music is by Abhijit Shylanath.Abhishek Madan is the official feedback-provider of script and sound. Get in touch via Twitter, or email imagined.tomorrow@gmail.com.

Episode music

Interlude music bits from Pixabay. Includes pieces by nojisuma and ZakharValaha.

Episode artwork

Imagined Tomorrow logo by Abhishek Madan.

If you want to delve further:

How one stupid tweet blew up Justine Sacco’s Life. Read here

First live tweet from space.

NASA extends the World Wide Web out into space. Read here

The internet in space? Slow as dial up. Read here

NASA Laser Communications Innovations: A Timeline. Read here

NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon. Read here

Nokia selected by NASA to build first ever cellular network on the Moon. Read here

SpaceX will build Starlink-like constellation around Mars, its president says. Read here

Transcript on Imagined Tomorrow 

Show notes:
In Episode 6, we explored if we could travel to space from India. In this bonus episode, we hear what the future of the internet could be like - in our solar system. Will we be able to watch Netflix on Mars, stream Youtube videos, chat with family and friends on Earth and livestream?
Episode features Dr. <a href="https://www.abhijeetborkar.com/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Abhijeet Borkar</a>, an astrophysicist at the Astronomy Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Imagined Tomorrow is created and hosted by Shreya Dasgupta. Intro and outro music is by<a href="https://twitter.com/htedum?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Abhijit Shylanath</a>.<a href="https://twitter.com/abhishekmadan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Abhishek Madan</a> is the official feedback-provider of script and sound. Get in touch via<a href="https://twitter.com/ShreyaDasgupta" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Twitter</a>, or email imagined.tomorrow@gmail.com.
Episode music
Interlude music bits from Pixabay. Includes pieces by nojisuma and ZakharValaha.
Episode artwork
Imagined Tomorrow logo by Abhishek Madan.
If you want to delve further:
How one stupid tweet blew up Justine Sacco’s Life. Read <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/astro_tj/status/8062317551?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First live tweet</a> from space.
NASA extends the World Wide Web out into space. Read <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jan/HQ_M10-012_ISS_Web.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>
The internet in space? Slow as dial up. Read <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/the-internet-in-space-slow-dial-up-lasers-satellites/395618/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>
NASA Laser Communications Innovations: A Timeline. Read <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-laser-communications-innovations-a-timeline" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>
NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon. Read <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/mona-lisa.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>
Nokia selected by NASA to build first ever cellular network on the Moon. Read <a href="https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2020/10/19/nokia-selected-by-nasa-to-build-first-ever-cellular-network-on-the-moon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>
SpaceX will build Starlink-like constellation around Mars, its president says. Read <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jan/HQ_M10-012_ISS_Web.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>
Transcript on <a href="https://www.imaginedtomorrow.com/post/s1-e7-bonus-space-internet-will-we-be-able-to-watch-netflix-on-mars" target="_blank">Imagined Tomorrow</a>&nbsp;

Imagined Tomorrow is a long form podcast that imagines futures for India and this part of the world through the lens of science and technology. Each episode explores a hypothetical future for India, and with the help of different voices and experts, tries to figure out what the journey to that future might look like given Indian realities in mind. Perhaps, the future could become a reality ten or twenty years from now. Maybe it’s a future only a few can reach. Or perhaps, it’s a future we shouldn’t even try to get to.

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