http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuraya http://www.humanedgetech.com/news.php?id=16244 Basically, calls as cheap as $0.20 or $0.40 a minute, although $1 a minute is more typical. Thuraya 3 is going to cover South America in 2009. The irony – goddamnit – is that Thuraya 2 misses South Africa and Reykjavik. Anyway, interesting to note – it’s a consortium of African and Middle [...]

Just great stuff. Well done!

One area in which I cannot discern any Collapse Gap is national politics. The ideologies may be different, but the blind adherence to them couldn’t be more similar. It is certainly more fun to watch two Capitalist parties go at each other than just having the one Communist party to vote for. The things they [...]

There are four basic trends which are going to own the future over the next 20 years. 1> Power is about to become as cheap as information. Nanosolar, Konarka, and the dozens of other solar power outfits who are pushing the price of solar down, down, down below the price of coal power, and towards [...]

The South Pacific country of Vanuatu has been voted the happiest place in the world so what makes its inhabitants such a happy lot? Not having to worry about money – the secret of Jean Pierre’s happiness (photo: James Mair) Jean Pierre John is living the dream. That popular fantasy of owning one’s own island, [...]