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Mark Zuckerberg has some sci-fi dreams for Facebook. Not content with frittering $2bn on virtual reality company Oculus this week, Mark Zuckerberg now wants to use drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to underdeveloped countries.

Yes, the famous founder of Facebook has now pledged to work on technology to deliver the internet to 'the next 3 billion people.' The firm has already employed experts in solar power to keep the drones flying for months at a time.

'For suburban areas in limited geographical regions, we’ve been working on solar-powered high altitude, long endurance aircraft that can stay aloft for months, be quickly deployed and deliver reliable internet connections. For lower density areas, low-Earth orbit and geosynchronous satellites can beam internet access to the ground. For all of these systems, the team is looking at Free-space optical communication, or FSO, is a way of using light to transmit data through space using invisible, infrared laser beams,' Zuckerberg wrote in a post.

'In our effort to connect the whole world with Internet.org, we've been working on ways to beam internet to people from the sky,' he added.

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