Welcome to a weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

You might have noticed that I've gone down a bit of a wormhole lately when it comes to Space Tech. And actually, to understand why,

listen to the very first minute of this conversation because we actually work out why Space Tech

has come to the forefront of my attention.

The wee that I'm referring to is my guest,

great friend of the show, Christopher Mims.

Chris has a piece in the Wall Street Journal this week

about the sudden race to deliver internet from space.

This was triggered of course by the recent Amazon news, but also we get into more deep

dives about how and why space Tech is suddenly having a moment.

My thanks to Chris for jumping on the show with me this weekend.

I actually, I'm not sure why Space Tech has been coming up so much for me lately even like you know the

stupid black hole thing this week but in a way it is starting to feel to me like it did a

decade ago when Tesla started making headlines for me and then I started hearing about Google doing self-driving cars so then all of a sudden I was like, oh, car tech is becoming a big thing.

And now I sort of feel, for some weird reason,

like space tech might be a next big thing.

Are you sort of getting that sense a little bit too? Absolutely and obviously this is you know an overnight success that's 50 years in the making.

There was a rustle of interest when you know Virgin started pledging you know remember you could pay

a hundred thousand dollars and reserve a seat on a on a space light which yeah that's

is sort of on schedule you still can't take it though right right

yeah like there what I discovered you know I mean I read about tech all the time

and I have not written about space until now and and I it's exactly as it was for you, like I wasn't really writing about

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