Alphabet‘s Project Loon might still be experimental in nature, but it just delivered real hope to 100,000 Puerto Rico residents in what the Project Loon team called the fastest deployment of its Internet-providing balloons ever.
Source: A bunch of balloons delivered basic Internet to 100,000 Puerto Rico residents | AndroidAuthority
100,000 is just a fraction of the Puerto Rican population (albeit it very grateful fraction, I’m sure), but what’s most exciting to me is how quickly these balloons were put into place, and what this kind of ability promises for the future.