Cloud Computing: Space, the Final Startup
February 2, 2015
Grazed from NewsWeek. Author: Kevin Maney.
No venture capitalist is crazier about outer space than Steve Jurvetson, who has been listening to unrealistic space company pitches for two decades. In the early 2000s, he helped back SpaceX. But mostly he’s impatiently waited for space to turn into Silicon Valley’s next playground—the kind of pulse-quickening, virgin land of hope and opportunity that the Internet once was.
Well, this is space’s Netscape moment, Jurvetson tells me. As often happens in technology, a bunch of advances in different fields are converging to make space less the final frontier and more like the next startup garage. In 1995, Netscape’s explosive IPO signaled that several technologies—the PC, software, the clunky government-run Internet, Tim Berners-Lee’s hyperlinking and Netscape’s graphical browser—had come together to create a world-changing new platform…
Today, cheap launch capabilities from SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, plus smartphone technology, cloud computing and big data, are keys to the space platform. Space is the new Internet…
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