The Project Loon
Loon is a network of stratospheric balloons designed to bring Internet connectivity to rural and remote communities worldwide.
The common wisdom is that most people are on the Internet these days, but this is only true in pockets of civilization. Roughly 4 billion people still don't have access as of late 2015. Many live in areas where the infrastructure of the Internet hasn't yet reached, or where coverage is inadequate or prohibitively expensive.
The project is appropriately named Project Loon, partially because it involves balloons and partially because it sounds looney. Google's plan is to create wireless networks via equipment-laden balloons floating in the stratosphere, high above the clouds. The balloons communicate with each other and with ground-based networking equipment and mobile devices to get people on the ground connected
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