Google’s Project Loon initiative wants to provide internet access for the developing world from a network of balloons floating in the stratosphere. Former Microsoft boss Bill Gates isn’t keen on the idea.”When you’re dying of malaria, I suppose you’ll look up and see that balloon, and I’m not sure how it’ll help you. When a kid gets diarrhoea, no, there’s no website that relieves that,” Gates told Business Week, in an interview about the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/09/bill-gates-google-project-loon