Since it launched nearly four years ago, Alphabets Project Loon experiment has shifted from an unlikely moonshot to an idea that might actually work. As Alphabets experimental X division chief and Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller wrote today, the project team has now exceeded even their own expectations, in the attempts to build a network of self-navigating, internet-beaming balloons. And in the process theyve leapt much closer to a day when balloon-powered Internet could bec…Read more