Week 7: Undersea Networks and Low Earth Orbit Satellites.
Read before class:
Tom Phillips and Dan Milmo, “‘Can’t Live without It’: Alarm at Musk’s Starlink Dominance in Brazil’s Amazon,” The Guardian, September 8, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/08/alarm-at-musk-starlink-dominance-brazil-amazon
James Glanz, Elian Peltier, and Pablo Robles, “Undersea Surgeons,” The New York Times, November 30, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/30/world/africa/subsea-cables.html.
Explore / watch before class:
- Nicole Starosielski, Erik Loyer, and Shane Brennan, Surfacing, https://surfacing.in/
- Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten (1977, 9 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
*There are two versions of this movie: please follow the link and watch the 1977 version.