One of the key seasteading enabling technologies will be high speed internet access. Free space optical communication (FSOC) meets many of the requirements:
* 1-10 GB/s high speed data transmission.
* Safe.
* No licensing required.
* Can connect to moving systems.
* Bidirectional.
* Low latency.
* Resilient to high temps, cold weather
* 100+ km range
"You can think of FSOC as functioning similarly to fiberoptic cable, using beams of light to carry information over huge distances in the blink of an eye. The big difference with FSOC though, is that there is no actual cable, which means there’s no need to dig tunnels or stretch wires across rivers or mountains. Instead, the Google parent company says small FSOC boxes will be installed on elevated structures like poles or roofs and rely on direct line-of-sight in order to transmit data up to 12 miles in a single hop."
Links:
https://gizmodo.com/alphabet-swaps-project-loon-balloons-for-boxes-to-bri-1821310664
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communication
https://mynaric.com/optical-ground-stations
* 1-10 GB/s high speed data transmission.
* Safe.
* No licensing required.
* Can connect to moving systems.
* Bidirectional.
* Low latency.
* Resilient to high temps, cold weather
* 100+ km range
"You can think of FSOC as functioning similarly to fiberoptic cable, using beams of light to carry information over huge distances in the blink of an eye. The big difference with FSOC though, is that there is no actual cable, which means there’s no need to dig tunnels or stretch wires across rivers or mountains. Instead, the Google parent company says small FSOC boxes will be installed on elevated structures like poles or roofs and rely on direct line-of-sight in order to transmit data up to 12 miles in a single hop."
Links:
https://gizmodo.com/alphabet-swaps-project-loon-balloons-for-boxes-to-bri-1821310664
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communication
https://mynaric.com/optical-ground-stations