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Gogo sells commercial in-flight internet business to bankrupt satellite provider

The Verge

Gogo, the in-flight internet provider, has found a buyer for its commercial airline business. The FCC is clearing out the C-band (4-8 GHz) to make space for 5G customers, and Intelsat is participating in the program that could net the company nearly $5 billion by selling airwave licenses it currently owns.

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Is United’s green supersonic jet too good to be true?

Vox

On Thursday, United Airlines announced it was purchasing a fleet of 15 planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound. The movement to more stringently regulate airplane emissions is now worldwide, and airlines have increasingly advertised plans to reduce their impact on the environment.

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I want to fly to Hawaii, but I don’t want to wreck the planet. With carbon offsets, can I do both?

GeekWire

But carbon offsets and removal are in ever greater demand, and folks are working to develop legitimate programs and technology in the space. But an overall greening of the airline industry is long, long ways off. As a CEO, you write a check and something happens somewhere and you get to claim that you’re net zero.

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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

GeekWire

And some of the startups that GeekWire categorized as clean energy are developing technologies that can decarbonize vehicle and airplane fuels as well, so this wedge could arguably be even bigger. Amazon — deemed the world’s largest retailer by some counts — needs to move millions of packages each year.

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2021+ 9 themes for next year and beyond

Trends in the Living Networks

The travel industry will reshape, with airlines merging, prices adjusting to ensure profitability, and new premium services for luxury tourists and business travelers. International travel revenue in 2020 will be $191 billion, less than a third of revenue in 2019, with the airline industry losing $118 billion this year. Energy Flip.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Nisreen Lahham enjoys the trans-disciplinary nature of futurism. Zanelle Njapha. Katindi Sivi Njonjo.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

They’re the makers, the developers, those people that are working with software and beyond. We started off really building one product in Sydney called Jira — which is still our largest product — that started off as a bug tracker for software developers. And then one day, we got a fax from American Airlines. And neither had I.