Part of me thinks planes with a stable and fast connection would be amazing.
The other part of me will mourn the days when a plane flight was one of the few places you could be expected to be totally unavailable.
The other part of me will mourn the days when a plane flight was one of the few places you could be expected to be totally unavailable.
Maybe depends on what kind of tech is installed on plane, but there is definitely space to improve it.
It's different for every airline, but I believe the system for Southwest just uses signals from cell towers, which is spotty at best.
Most of the major US airlines have been migrating from cellular to Ka- or Ku-band satellite internet over the last few years. (Including Southwest.)
There's some individual aircraft that haven't been upgraded yet, since installing the satellite antenna is a major upgrade. But at least on my flights, most offer it now.
For international longer-haul flights satellite coverage can be rough for airlines - at least a few years ago when I was familiar with it airlines had either global coverage, but slow, or smaller coverage but fast.
It'll be interesting if Starlink can solve this for fast-moving planes for airlines like Qantas that fly from Aus to Europe, Asia, and America.
if you are only sharing opinion, then my opinion is that you're wrong and that neural links are already here and will be accessible to all within our lifetime.