From the Florida coast, humanity's most prolific rocket company added twenty-nine more nodes to a web of connectivity that now encircles the entire planet. What was once the stuff of science fiction — reusable rockets landing themselves on ocean platforms, satellites deployed by the hundreds — has become so ordinary that a one-day delay barely merits a footnote. SpaceX's August 21st Starlink launch is less a singular event than a single stitch in a vast, ongoing act of infrastructure-building that may redefine who on Earth can access the digital world.