Eight months later, on July 20, the anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, Musk tweeted again: "Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Co… - Peter Diamandis

small groups of dedicated DIY innovators can now tackle problems that were once solely the purview of big governments and large corporations.

We were at 0G in 1940, when the first telephone networks began to roll out. This was the deceptive phase. It took forty years to crawl our way to 1G, which showed up via the first mobile phones in the 1980s, marking the transition from deceptive to disruptive. By the 90s, around the time the internet emerged, 2G came along for the ride. But the ride didn't last long. A decade later, 3G ushered in a new era of acceleration as bandwidth costs began to plummet — at a staggeringly consistent 35 percent per year. Smartphones, mobile banking, and e-commerce unleashed 4G networks in 2010. But starting in 2019, 5G will begin to hotwire the whole deal, delivering speeds a hundred times faster at near-zero prices.

in 2011 the United Nations declared “access to the Internet” a fundamental human right.