
The world of commercial flight has seen so much change since its inception, and I’ve now had the chance to experience what will perhaps be one of the next shifts — in-flight satellite internet.
This figures to usher in quite a change from flights of 20 years ago when you boarded a plane, turned off your phone, and spent the next several hours unconnected. You could sit and think, try to sleep, listen to music on your iPod, or maybe — if you were lucky — watch whatever movies the airline was playing on a few screens around the cabin.