AT&T CEO John Donovan slapped down recent 5G criticism by Verizon and T-Mobile at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Those companies and some others have criticized them saying AT&T is “slapping 5G stickers” on upgraded 4G phones. They say it is misleading and confusing to consumers and is damaging to 5G in the long run. Donovan says that is really just not the case.
John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications, discussed criticisms related to 5G marketing and how 5G is going to radically reshape technology in the future in an interview by CNBC at CES in Las Vegas:
They Are a Little Wounded by Our Success Last Month
The fact that we have beachfront property inside their heads makes me smile. But that’s really just not the case. If you think about the history of our industry, the top part of that phone has always given an indication of the network information. In the early days, the number of bars told you where you were coverage wise.
Then when you were paying per megabyte you’d look to see where to get a Wi-Fi network. That’s always been the information that was available to customers about what’s going to be available and what can they do.
For us, it was a natural evolution. We announced two years ago at this show, actually in 2017, that we were going to do this. The fact that we did it and then all of a sudden our competitors have decided that they’re upset by it, I think that they’re wounded a little by our success last month.
AT&T Bringing 5G to Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium
In December, just last month, we launched the first 5G mobile version that’s standards-based, you can buy a device and you can get on the network for 12 cities. The first part of this year we’re going to roll out in another seven cities. So we’re well down the path. We’ve been announcing some of these use cases that we’re doing with businesses.
Just this morning we announced we’re going to work with the Dallas Cowboys to get 5G into AT&T Stadium and Rush Hospital in Chicago, where we’re going to try to transform healthcare inside the provider hospitals. and so we’re really excited about the opportunity to continue marching down this path.
5G is Going to Radically Reshape Technology
The 4G network itself was really the epicenter of the 4G revolution which was the device itself. As you think about how it comes together though, each of these generations, the network, the device, and then the applications, have to come together. Sometimes you get those things timed perfectly. Sometimes one is ahead of another. At the end of the day, the consumer benefits are going to arrive when all three of them come together at the same time.
What’s different about 5G is not just that the network is more powerful. We always think of it as a real-time network. It’s also that we’ve been getting calls from customers in advance that say I’m going to do a new architecture or a new design on something that you’re going to see on the CES floor.
It’s going to radically reshape the size of goggles, for instance, for virtual reality. It’s going to change how you would architect an autonomous car. So this is different because these things are going to happen and come together much more quickly than they did during the early days of the iPhone and the evolution of the 3G and the 4G network.
Asked about subsidizing phones again or subsidizing something else to help aid the 5G rollout:
Possibility of Bringing Back Phone Subsidies
That’s a TBD. I do think that when you build a long term relationship with a customer and that relationship is expanding it does give you some degrees of freedom to say we’re going to help you with the economics of this or help with the economics of that. It’s a TBD.
I’m not trying to shy away from the question. I think that there’s a possibility that you could get back into subsidies of some sort. Today, what customers appreciate with us is they have the ability to get HBO or music so that they get some added benefit with their traditional network.
Toyota has introduced the hybrid P4 concept car that includes increased accident protection that is much “smarter” than its predecessor. Toyota says that with greater computing power, its systems can operate more machine learning algorithms in parallel for faster learning. They say it can process sensor inputs faster and react more quickly to the surrounding environment.
The technology was created by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) as part of their autonomous vehicle R&D. P4 adds two additional cameras to improve situational awareness on the sides and two new imaging sensors – one facing forward and one pointed to the rear – specifically designed for autonomous vehicles.
Toyota Research Institute Rolls Out P4 Automated Driving Test Vehicle at CES.
Additionally, the imaging sensors feature new chip technology with high dynamic range. The radar system has been optimized to improve the field of view, especially for close range detection around the vehicle perimeter. The LIDAR sensing system with eight scanning heads carries over from the previous test model, Platform 3.0, and morphs into the new vehicle design.
“If we are able to reduce technology that theoretically can reduce fatalities by ten-fold or perhaps even a hundred-fold we can make consumers and society safer,” says Bob Carter, Toyota North America Executive Vice President.
Bob Carter, North America Executive Vice President of Toyota, discussed the new Guardian technology at length on Fox Business:
Toyota P4 Concept Car With Guardian Technology
This is I believe our fourth or fifth year where we’re introducing our newest technology, particularly in the autonomous driving area, here at the Consumer Electronics Show. The vehicle we are introducing today is a concept car called P4. It’s our fourth platform. We are introducing what we call our Guardian technology. Guardian is considered the co-pilot sitting in the passenger seat for you.
We are going to demonstrate to the media today where we actually experience an accident on Interstate 80. What the Guardian technology does, it’s an offshoot of development for fully autonomous, is it monitors all the conditions around the car all the time. In the example of this one unfortunate accident that nobody was hurt in one car drifted into its lane into another car and then pushed it into the guardrail. This is a very typical situation.
Guardian Technology Takes Control Prior to Accidents
Our Guardian technology senses that and then momentarily takes the controls from the driver. This includes acceleration, braking, and steering. It can navigate the car out of the area of the accident and then immediately hand back the controls to the driver. The end result is that the driver is still in control of the car. He has the enjoyment of driving, yet in in unforeseen circumstance, technology can take over to avoid the accident.
It was developed by the Toyota Research Institute that we have in the Silicon Valley. They’re working on a number of different technologies for the future that we believe are really going to enhance the safety of society in the future. Unfortunately, it’s are something that does happen. In North America last year there were 40,000 fatalities on our roads.
Guardian Technology May Reduce Fatalities by Ten-Fold
If we are able to reduce technology that theoretically can reduce fatalities by ten-fold or perhaps even a hundred-fold we can make consumers and society safer. In fact, we are so convinced that this technology is the correct path for the future that we are opening up to other auto manufacturers. We would love to see every vehicle on the road today have this sort of technology available for consumers.
Last year, there were 17.2 million vehicles sold. Approximately one percent of those were full battery electric vehicles. We have a very robust system we use with hybrids which is a combination of our gasoline engines and electric. These have been on the market since 1997. We think it is going to take some time for the market to advance but later on next decade we believe electrification will become mainstream in the North American market.
The best Fortnite player in the world, ‘Ninja’ Tyler Blevins, says he currently makes more than $500,000 a month and may just become the world’s first $10 million a year gamer. Ninja has over 20 million subscribers to his YouTube channel and a reported 200,000+ paying subscribers watching Blevins livestream on Twitch.
‘Ninja’ Tyler Blevins, coming off appearances on Ellen and Jimmy Fallon, discussed his Fortnite success and wealth in an interview on CNN Business:
Blevins Makes More than $500,000 a Month
Losing tens of thousands of dollars sitting for this interview is a perfect assumption. With Fortnite alone I’ve streamed 3,400 hours this past year. That’s 142 days of gaming and streaming. On a good month I make more than $500,000 a month.
When I started making more than $80,000 a year streaming and gaming was the deciding factor in leaving college and quitting my job at Noodles & Company. That was the deciding factor by my Mom. By no means was she going to let me quit my job or drop out of school.
I say “drop out of school,” I don’t even like that because I always had every intention of going back. I actually did go back when I had an eye issue thing and my stream took a dive. After hitting $80,000 a year I said Mom, I’m doing this until I make less and then I will go back.
Could be the First $10 Million a Year Gamer
I definitely could be the first $10 million a year gamer. It’s rare that I meet people that don’t know what I’m doing. But if I had a dollar every time I was at an airport and someone asks what I’m doing. I say I’m going to a tournament. I answer it’s a video game tournament. They are amazed I make money playing video games. The gaming tournament explanation is simple. A bunch of people buy a team pass. That money goes into the prize pool winner take all.
70 Percent of Revenue Comes from Twitch and YouTube
Streaming is the hardest part for people to understand. How do you make money streaming? The answer is ad revenue. There are going to be ads in commercial breaks. Those advertising companies pay the network and it’s the same way with streaming. However many people see the ads, you get money there. Also, people can subscribe.
I make most of my money from Twitch and YouTube. It’s constant, it’s consistent, it’s monthly. About 70 percent of my money comes from Twitch and YouTube together. And then like brand deals with Red Bull and others make up the rest. It’s really simple, it’s like subscribing to a magazine, Spotify, or anything like that. It’s the same thing.
My favorite reference is a guy on the street playing the violin. He’s not expected to get any money, maybe a couple of bucks. If you enjoy it a lot sometimes people will throw in twenty’s and five’s. It’s the same thing with me, but I absolutely have a big violin case.
The co-founder of crypto security firm BlaKFX says that Bitcoin was a great proof of concept and will be around for a long time, but it’s more of a collectible. “You need to have common liquidity pools,” says Kara Coppa, BlaKFX co-founder, and COO. “If you can’t move your money from fiat to crypto and move it into ecommerce to purchase something it’s really useless.”
Kara Coppa, BlaKFX co-founder, and COO, discussed the cryptocurrency and her companies efforts to ensure its security in an interview on Fox Business:
The Biggest Heist in World History
We all thought Bitcoin was going crazy, but cybersecurity issues were a big problem this year. There was $1 billion lost in 2018, the biggest heist in world history, in humanity. There are a lot of issues with blockchain, it is a new technology. However, BlaKFX has uncovered many issues and we have 18 plus patents pending, lots of solutions to fix all those problems and make it secure.
We are working with the governments right now, especially in Malta where Blockchain Island is. We are helping them to create cybersecurity regulations to ensure that there is no theft and to make sure that we can move forward with this as a currency in the future.
As we see more asset-backed tokens, tokenizing highways, buildings, sports teams, and fractionalizing different types of assets to so that others can get involved, it can go mainstream but it has to be secure.
Governments Coming on Board with Cryptocurrencies
I think in 2019 we will see governments start to come on board and launch their own cyrptocurrencies. Dubai for example, by 2020, their initiative is to have their entrie government on blockchain.
Once you do make it secure you don’t have to have it annonomous. You can have governments part of that bigger picture. When you bring in banks and governments into this cutting-edge technology it goes a long way. I think that is also another prediction for 2019, we will see a lot of alliances.
We will see the government sector coming in together, different exchanges and cybersecurity companies coming together to make it a better, tighter technology.
Bitcoin is More of a Collectible
I think Bitcoin was a great proof of concept and I think it will be around for a long time, but it’s more of a collectible if you well. You need to have common liquidity pools. If you can’t move your money from fiat to crypto and move it into ecommerce to purchase something it’s really useless.
Working with the Google Developers Launchpad, BrainQ has developed a unique AI-powered brain-computer medical device, says their CEO, Yotam Drechsler. “It takes patients’ brainwaves as an input with a set of metadata and runs machine learning algorithms in the cloud and translates them into a tailored electromagnetic treatment aimed at facilitating their central nerve system recovery process,” says Drechsler.
BrainQ is developing an AI-based medical device aimed at getting powerless people following neural disorders, like stroke or spinal cord injury, back on their feet. Every single year, hundreds of millions of people around the world suffer from neural disorders. Stroke alone accounts for 15 million people every single year. And the entire neural disorders cost to the US economy is $1.5 trillion every single year.
My grandfather had a stroke several years ago. From being the center of the family, all of a sudden, he became paralyzed in half of his body. That means he can longer do simple things like grabbing a glass of water or dressing alone. That’s the reality for many people out there.
Using AI to Model Physical Therapy
The common treatment is what’s called physical therapy. It’s essentially exercising the hand or the leg back and forth. What BrainQ essentially does is modeling physical therapy and applying it directly to the brain. In a sense, we ask what happens for a patient or for a healthy person when he does a hand movement, like reaching his hand to grab a glass of water.
We are getting a lot of people to do these kinds of movements and then we learn the patterns. We take these patterns that we have learned and identified and reapply it back to him as a personalized treatment.
Developed Unique Brain-Computer Medical Device
We have developed a unique brain-computer interface-based medical device. It takes patients’ brainwaves as an input with a set of metadata and runs machine learning algorithms in the cloud and translates them into a tailored electromagnetic treatment aimed at facilitating their central nerve system recovery process.
We were very fortunate to have Google share this vision with us. We worked very closely with the GCP team on making this vision come true. We were fortunate to be on this program, and it really puts us on a fast track. And in all four fronts, we have developed the next generation of technology with precision medicine base, with the studio team, Peter Norvig, and the rest of the Googlers that were very, very keen in helping us.
We had a large funding round in the past couple of months and we have several collaborations in the pipeline. We are hoping to continue on this promising track and really bring cure to millions of people around the world. And we are fortunate to have Google with us on this journey.
If you’re not very confident in global stability you should be long on Bitcoin says tech mogul Geoff Lewis. He says blockchain the technology continues to be somewhat overhyped, but at this point, he thinks bitcoins are probably relatively underhyped.
Geoff Lewis, the founder of Bedrock Capital and an early tech investor in many companies including Lyft, recently discussed the future of Bitcoin and more on CNBC:
Blockchain the Technology is Overhyped
With blockchain, you’ve got to distinguish between blockchain the technology and then the currencies themselves. Blockchain the technology continues to be somewhat overhyped.
There just are lots of scalability challenges to be figured out there. On the currency side, I would say at this time last year it’s extraordinarily overhyped.
Bitcoins Are Probably Relatively Underhyped
I remember around this time last year I had an electrician in my house and he was telling me about how to become a Bitcoin millionaire. Bitcoin was around $20,000 and he was a Bitcoin multi-millionaire. At this point, I think bitcoins are probably relatively underhyped.
If you think a year ago versus today, I personally have less confidence in global governments, less confidence that we’re going to be in a stable long-term global future. If you’re not very confident in global stability you should be long on Bitcoin.
Dr. Rand Hindi says that without emotional intelligence machines will never be able to obtain human-like artificial intelligence. Reminiscent of Data on Star Trek Next Generation, Hindi says that despite the impressive ability of machines to learn from other machines and to solve logic problems better than humans, most decisions humans make are actually emotionally driven and machines simply don’t have an emotional IQ.
I want to talk to you about the reason why I believe that human-like artificial intelligence is never going to exist and what that means for the future of work. Artificial intelligence is the ability to reproduce human behavior in a machine. That’s it. Take what a human can do intelligently, put it in a machine and you’ve got artificial intelligence.
Within AI you’ve got one type of way to achieve this which is called machine learning. The idea of machine learning is that you’re effectively teaching machines to reproduce the behavior by giving it examples. It’s a little bit like a kids book where you have pictures of animals and the name of the animal is written and then after seeing a few pictures of horses your kids know how to recognize horses. It’s exactly the same thing in machines.
Machine Learning is a Very Big Deal
Machine learning is a very big deal because up until now when you wanted to automate something a human had to first understand what was going on, then sit down and program a machine to do that. Automation was limited to what humans were able to understand. With machine learning all you need is data collected from what you’re trying to automate and the machine does everything else. You no longer need a human expert in the loop.
Within machine learning there is one type of algorithm that’s called deep learning. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning which is a branch of artificial intelligence and you could consider all three to be interchangeable today, but that’s going to change in the future. I don’t believe that word artificial intelligence is actually going to be used in marketing in the next few years.
Deep Learning Has Been a Huge Revolution
How have we been using deep learning? Deep learning has been a huge revolution. We see it happening for self-driving cars. We see it happening for medicine. Medicine is a very important use case for artificial intelligence because we have today AI that can diagnose x-rays or MRIs better than humans can.
You’ve probably heard about Alexa, the voice assistant from Amazon. This is one of the fastest growing consumer products ever. Rumors are that one in six Americans uses that. This was not possible before because deep learning was not enabling us to talk to machines as naturally speaking.
Is AI Getting Out of Control?
Let me tell you about the world champion playing against Google’s artificial intelligence at the game of Go. The game of Go was considered to be extremely complicated for an AI to beat because the number of different combinations meant that the only way for a machine to beat a human is to actually learn how to play the game. We thought this was still ten years in the future. The way that they made this work was really interesting.
They took one artificial intelligence and they made it play against another one. So one was playing the white side, one was playing the black side, but the trick is that every time one of the AI played a move the other one gave it feedback on that move. By mutually reinforcing each other by playing millions and millions of games, eventually they learned how to play the game better than any human.
At the time, when they played against a world champion the world champion won one out of five games so this was amazing. But people felt a little bit reassured, they were like a 20 percent chance of surviving AI that’s still not bad! However, the same AI kept on learning. Today, not a single human can beat that AI at a single game. But there is more, there is a new version of this AI that beats that AI that beats every human at every game.
When I saw that I was like, oh my god, this is just getting out of control, this is getting out of our hands. But what you need to understand is that everything I just talked about, however impressive it is, is still something that is called narrow artificial intelligence. Effectively, those machines are able to do one thing, perhaps do it better than a human, but they’re only doing this one specific thing. The AI that played the game of Go that was a breakthrough, but it doesn’t know how to do anything but play the game of Go.
Machines Will Never Have Emotional Intelligence
Now people are working on something that’s called general artificial intelligence. This idea that a machine could solve any logical task, that it could reason, that it could transfer the learning it had from something to something else. This is major because if you can have a general form of intelligence and reasoning then potentially machines could do anything that seems like intelligence.
But this is still not what you see in movies. What you see in movies is a very human-like artificial intelligence. It’s not just reasoning and logic, it also includes the ability to emotionally connect with humans. So artificial human intelligence is really this combination of logical intelligence and emotional intelligence. It’s IQ plus EQ. If you only take IQ into the equation you don’t end up having human intelligence.
Why is emotional intelligence important? It’s a way that as humans we can solve paradoxes. A paradox is a mathematical problem for which there is no logical solution. If a machine is not able to have emotional intelligence it will never be able to solve logical traps, which means as humans we can use our EQ to find traps for machines that have very high IQ.
You might be thinking that machines are building emotional intelligence as well. We see all those amazing robots, people develop feelings for those robots as well. However, I believe that you will never have true emotional intelligence in machines.
EQ First Requires Artificial Consciousness.
Emotional intelligence first requires artificial consciousness. They will also need to feel emotions. This is very different than pretending to have emotions. It’s very easy for me to learn that when someone is smiling that person is probably happy and it’s very easy for me to smile back. But hey, I can be smiling but it doesn’t mean I feel happy right now. There’s a big difference between perception of emotion, between display of emotion and feeling emotions.
We know that humans who don’t feel emotions are incapable of making decisions on a daily basis. They can do math, they can solve mathematical puzzles, so they have very high IQ potentially. But if you ask them what they would like for lunch they cannot answer because there is no algorithm to answer that question. Given that as humans most of our decisions are emotionally driven. Let’s be honest, we use the data to back it up but we make emotional decisions mostly. A machine that doesn’t have an emotional intelligence will never be seen as a human-like type of intelligence.
What I’m trying to get to here is that yes, you will have an AI that has an IQ of five billion and yes every logical task is potentially doable by a machine, but humans will have the monopoly on emotional intelligence. Humans alone will be able to do emotionally driven tasks and so rather than think about machines replacing humans we really have to start thinking about humans and machines working together.
How can we leverage the horizontal emotional intelligence of humans with the powerful mechanical logical intelligence of machines? Rather than try to build an AI that replaces humans completely, why don’t we start building an AI that actually works with a human in a very natural and very intuitive way.
The best companies have very bright futures says tech investor Geoff Lewis. He says that the way he always thinks about private company valuations is as a discount on the future versus a premium on the past. Lewis says that the future is bright for Lyft because only half a percent of the rides in the US today are shared rides so there is a lot of room to grow.
Geoff Lewis, the founder of Bedrock Capital and an early tech investor in many companies including Lyft, recently discussed the future of Lyft, social media, Bitcoin, and more on CNBC:
The Best Companies Have Very Bright Futures
The way that I always think about these private company valuations is as a discount on the future versus a premium on the past. I learned this from Peter Thiel who I worked with for many years. The best companies have very bright futures.
If you think about Lyft, for example, only half a percent of the rides in the US today are shared rides. The entire remainder of rides in the US are normal rides. So there’s a lot of room for a company like Lyft in the US alone to grow if they can even capture two percent of rides in the US.
There Are Some Dogs that are Going to Go Out This Year
I think there’s a pretty bright future for the good tech companies. Quite honestly, there are some dogs that are going to go out this year and they’re not going to do well. But ultimately, the great thing about technology is the macro tends to matter less in the long term for the really enduring tech companies.
You want to find these businesses that have these really durable revenue models that are going to be able to grow for many years going forward. It’s a hard hard thing to figure out.
The Trend for 2019 is the End of Trends
I’m personally very interested in new approaches to financing education and new approaches actually getting an education. I really do think the university and the college system is very broke and there are new financial instruments out there that can really help folks through education. We have some exciting stuff that we’ve been working that we will be talking about in 2019.
Beyond that, I’d say the trend for 2019 is the end of trends. We’ve gone through so many hype cycles in technology and I really think we’re in an environment where we just have to find one-of-a-kind things that don’t fit into any easy to categorize categories. I think that makes the job of being an investor a lot harder.
Consumers have now shifted up to 11 percent of their shopping online and this means that the US needs to get rid of 11 percent of their physical stores, according to former Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren. He says that overall the consumer is healthy and spending but that doesn’t mean that physical stores shouldn’t close to match supply and demand.
Terry Lundgren, former Macy’s CEO, discussed the health of the economy and the need to close more physical stores on CNBC:
The Consumer is Healthy and Spending
If you just look at all of the numbers week after week you’d have to say that the consumer is in very good shape, as good a shape as I’ve seen this consumer. Obviously, GDP is driven by consumption and the numbers are good. You’ve watched retailer after retailer putting up really good numbers, top, and bottom line. They’re even raising earnings and guidance in some cases, and getting no credit for that by the way in most cases for their stock price. I think that has nothing to do with how the consumer is responding.
I think the consumer is healthy. I think the consumer is spending. I think the stores are busy. More consumers are shopping both online and in-store and I think that’s really good for business because they spend more when they’re in a physical store than they do when they do it when they’re online. We’re set up for a very decent finish to the year.
This Country is Way Over-Stored
There has been an oversupply of physical retail stores in this country, and it’s this country by the way. This country is way over-stored. We’re at 23.2 square feet per human being in the United States versus 16 in Canada and 4.8 in the UK and then they get smaller from there. We’re just way over-stored, so there has to be a contraction. I can tell you in the case of Macy’s two years ago they’ve done this and closed 20 percent of their stores.
That’s what has to happen because of this shift to online that has occurred, which has been the reality. It’s still only about 10 or 11 percent of all retail sales by the way, but it is growing. You have to get rid of 10 or 11 percent of the physical stores just because of that and that hasn’t happened. So the answer is no we’re not there yet but when that does happen over time, supply and demand is back, that’s when you’ll see the physical stores begin to grow again.
World View is pioneering new ballooning technologies to access space at less cost and more safely than rocket systems. The goal, according to World View CEO Jane Poynter, is to eventually take people into space. The company is already taking payloads via The Stratollite to near space and uniquely holding over an area of interest for days, weeks and even months.
Jane Poynter, World View Enterprises CEO, recently discussed her companies breakthrough technology on Bloomberg:
Ballooning Technology is a Completely Different Way to Access Space
If you’re going to do something really different you cannot have the word ‘impossible’ in your vernacular. So what’s really kind of awesome about ballooning technology, it is so completely different from the way people have thought about accessing space before. There’s no noise, it’s completely silent and you’re using gravity. So what we’ve done is created this vehicle that can stay continuously over a location. How we do that is the magic.
We have launch, all the instruments, the landing, all in the same vehicle. That’s completely revolutionary. And we can fly just about any instrument on it, whether it’s communications, weather instrumentation, cameras, any kind of device you can imagine. So in the years to come, we’re imagining that we can help millions, let’s think big, billions of people get online who currently can’t be online.
We envision being able to transform the way we work with hurricanes and other severe storms so that we can actually get much better warnings of what’s happening with these storms than we currently have now so that people can get out of the way. Then we can even help the first responders with communications and eyes in the sky and do this all around the world.
Jane Poynter Lived in Biosphere 2 Habitat for 2 Years
One of the seminal experiences was being viscerally part of my biosphere, in a very literal way. We drank the same water over and over again. We breathed the same oxygen over and over again. So we were very literally part of our biosphere. That gave us this incredibly powerful perspective of the planet that we live on. It’s very akin to the kind of experiences that astronauts have when they see the Earth from the blackness of space. We wanted to find a way to really give that to ourselves but also to everybody else.
Plans to Take People to Space Via Ballooning Technology
If we can take people to space I think it’s going to change many people’s idea about this planet that we live on. The idea that we are all on this same planet together, and then what are people going to do with that experience? In my mind, that’s the important part. Coming back from space and taking that experience and doing something great with it. Wow! How awesome that would be to be able to make that change in the world.
About World View
As an active, full-service commercial launch provider, World View’s technology is already opening up new realms of possibility for commercial customers around the world.
World View’s disruptive Stratollite flight platform enables previously unthinkable applications at a fraction of the cost of existing technology. Stratollites serve a variety of mission functions – from short duration research flights to long-duration flights over specific areas of interest – and serve a broad range of critical commercial needs and applications.
In the near future, World View will leverage the development of its Stratollite technology to pioneer a different type of discovery – private space exploration. In due time, World View will offer an affordable, safe, and gentle way for humans to access near-space for an experience unlike any other.
